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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 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.

Lisa Phu

Public Information Officer

City & Borough of Juneau

(907) 586-5374

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