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State reports 14 new COVID-19 cases for Juneau

October 26, 2021 – News

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.

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