State reports 14 new COVID-19 cases for Juneau
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) reports 14 new residents in the Juneau community identified with COVID-19 for October 26. There are currently five people with COVID-19 hospitalized at Bartlett Regional Hospital. No one from the Juneau School District has tested positive for COVID-19 since yesterday.
Juneau Public Health reports these generalized case trends for the past week:
- There is one cluster in a group of kids
- As of the end of last week, there were no active cases at Lemon Creek Correctional Center
- Many Juneau cases from this weekend were known contacts (mostly household or non-household family) to existing cases
Statewide, DHSS reports 753 new people identified with COVID-19 – 749 are residents and four are nonresidents. The state also reports 11 recent deaths – 10 resident deaths and one nonresident – bringing the total number of resident deaths to 688 and nonresident deaths to 26:
- a male Anchorage resident in his 50s
- a male Anchorage resident in his 80s
- a female Anchorage resident in her 90s
- a male Anchorage resident in his 60s
- a female Anchorage resident in her 60s
- a female Anchorage resident in her 90s
- a male Fairbanks resident in his 50s
- a male North Pole resident in his 70s
- a male Fairbanks resident in his 80s
- a female North Pole resident in her 70s
- a nonresident man in his 50s died in Fairbanks
Alaska has had 130,482 cumulative resident cases of COVID-19 and a total of 5,214 nonresidents.
Juneau vaccine update:
- 72.9 percent of the total population of Juneau has received at least 1 dose of vaccine and 69.2 percent has completed the vaccine series.
- 94.5 percent of the population in Juneau age 65+ has received at least one dose of vaccine and 91.2 percent has completed the vaccine series.
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