Juneau’s 14-day COVID-19 recap: Nov. 16 – Nov. 29

Over the 14-day period from November 16 to November 29, there were 109 people in Juneau who tested positive for COVID-19 (that’s down slightly from 112 during the previous two weeks):

• Two percent of the cases were associated with ongoing clusters. The University of Alaska Southeast cluster had eight positive cases and is now considered closed. In addition, a cluster of households that resulted in 10 positive cases has also resolved. The remaining cases were due to travel, transmission among friends and family, and community spread.
• Public Health attributed 43 percent of cases to secondary transmission, 22 percent to community spread, seven percent to out-of-state travel, and 19.5 percent of the cases remain under investigation.
• Contact tracing is improving with 90 percent of cases being contacted within 24 hours of a positive test being returned. This is up from 75 percent during the last reporting period.
• Disease spread is across all age groups, most racial groups (the category of individuals who self-identified as white is highest with 44), and is evenly spread between males and females.

Contact tracing is improving slightly, but remains constrained due to the statewide caseload. Those who test positive are encouraged to immediately call their own close contacts. Read more about what to do here. The disease is moving via all disease acquisition types: secondary transmission, travel, and community spread. Residents must take appropriate cautions, including limiting social bubbles to immediate household members.

Read the full Emergency Operations Center Report, which included this weekly recap, as well as other daily reports here.