[Covid-19] State reports 14 new COVID-19 cases for Juneau

[Lisa Phu]

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155 S. Seward Street  ▪  Juneau, Alaska  99801  ▪  907-586-5240


INFORMATION RELEASE
October 26, 2021

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<https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=1974bb51a6a34ab2831ef4d26e4b84e5> 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<https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/af2efc8bffbf4cdc83c2d1a134354074> 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<https://juneau.org/covid19-eoc-updates>.



Lisa Phu
Public Information Officer
City & Borough of Juneau
(907) 586-5374
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