State reports 10 new COVID-19 cases for Juneau

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) reports 10 new residents in the Juneau community identified with COVID-19 for November 2. There are currently four people with COVID-19 hospitalized at Bartlett Regional Hospital.

According to Juneau Public Health:

• There are 130 active cases. Of those, 47 cases are from individuals age 18 or under and 31 cases are from individuals under 12.
• There continues to be one ongoing cluster in kids.
• Several workplaces with a few cases but most spread is within households and between friends and family.
• Majority of Juneau cases are in people under age 50 with only 16 cases in those age 50 or older.

Statewide, DHSS reports 499 new people identified with COVID-19 – 494 are residents and five are nonresidents. The state also reports six recent deaths bringing the total number of resident deaths to 708:

• a male Anchorage resident in his 60s
• a female Anchorage resident in her 30s
• a female Anchorage resident in her 80s
• a female Anchorage resident in her 20s
• a female Anchorage resident in her 50s
• a female Kenai Peninsula South resident in her 70s

Alaska has had 134,658 cumulative resident cases of COVID-19 and a total of 5,267 nonresidents.

Juneau vaccine update:

• 73.2 percent of the total population of Juneau has received at least 1 dose of vaccine and 69.5 percent has completed the vaccine series.
• 94.8 percent of the population in Juneau age 65+ has received at least one dose of vaccine and 91.3 percent has completed the vaccine series.

For more information, read CBJ’s Emergency Operations Center Reports here.