CBJ reports 12 new COVID-19 cases

The City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center is reporting 12 new residents with COVID-19. Public Health is attributing four cases to secondary transmission and the rest are under investigation.

Cumulatively, Juneau has had 922 residents test positive for COVID-19 since March and 117 nonresidents. There are 44 active cases in Juneau and 990 individuals have recovered. All individuals with active cases of COVID-19 are in isolation.

For more details on COVID-19 in Juneau, watch today’s COVID-19 Community Update at 4 p.m. Join on Zoom https://juneau.zoom.us/j/98563085159, or call 1-346-248-7799 or 1-669-900-6833 or 1-253-215-8782 with webinar ID 985 6308 5159. Questions from the media will be answered live.

Statewide, the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services today reports 429 new people with COVID-19 – 426 are residents and three are nonresidents. The state also reports 10 deaths today, bringing the total number of resident deaths to 193. Four of the deaths were recent – a female Anchorage resident in her 80s, a female Anchorage resident in her 70s, a male Anchorage resident in his 70s, and a male Anchorage resident in his 60s. Six deaths were from death certificate reviews over the past several months – a male Mat-Su Borough resident in his 80s, a female Anchorage resident in her 80s, a male Anchorage resident in his 70s, a male Anchorage resident in his 70s, a female Anchorage resident in her 60s, and a male Big Lake resident in his 40s.

Alaska has had 43,001 cumulative resident cases of COVID-19 and a total of 1,462 nonresidents.