2 deaths, 471 COVID-19 cases reported Friday

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services reported two deaths and 471 new COVID-19 cases in the state on Friday.

The state reported two additional deaths related to COVID-19, leaving a total of 406 state-reported COVID-19-related deaths of Alaska residents. One of the deaths was recent, being an Anchorage woman in her 30s. The other death was Prince of Wales-Hyder man in his 80s. He was identified through a death certificate review.

As of Friday, the state’s vaccine monitoring dashboard shows that 59.7% of Alaskans age 12 and older have gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and that 53.7% are fully vaccinated. The Juneau region remains the most vaccinated out of all regions in the state, with 75.8% of people 12 and older vaccinated.

DHSS says there are currently 125 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 who are hospitalized. Of those, 19 are on ventilators.

Of the 471 new COVID-19 cases reported by the state, 443 of them were identified among residents of the following communities:

Anchorage: 140
Wasilla: 44
Bethel Census Area: 31
Fairbanks: 31
Palmer: 28
Juneau: 22
Ketchikan: 14
Eagle River: 13
Homer: 12)
Kusilvak Census Area: 10
Kodiak: 9
Sitka: 7
Valdez: 7
Soldotna: 6
Kenai: 5
Nome Census Area: 5
Seward: 5
Unalaska: 5
Bethel: 4
North Pole: 4
Douglas: 3
Houston: 3
Nikiski: 3
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area: 3
Chugiak: 2
Copper River Census Area: 2
Kenai Peninsula Borough North: 2
North Slope Borough: 2
Utqiaġvik: 2
Anchor Point: 1
Bristol Bay plus Lake and Peninsula: 1
Chevak: 1
Craig: 1
Dillingham: 1
Dillingham Census Area: 1
Girdwood: 1
Haines: 1
Healy: 1
Hooper Bay: 1
Kenai Peninsula Borough South: 1
Ketchikan Gateway Borough: 1
Mat-Su Borough: 1
Nome: 1
Northwest Arctic Borough: 1
Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area: 1
Sterling: 1
Willow: 1
Yakutat plus Hoonah-Angoon: 1

28 new nonresident cases were identified in:

Anchorage: 11
Fairbanks: 4
Juneau: 3
North Slope Borough: 2
Petersburg: 2
Ketchikan: 2
Soldotna: 1
Location under investigation: 3

Since the pandemic began, the state has processed more than 2.63 million COVID-19 tests, and currently has a seven-day average positivity rate of 7.12%.