The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services on Thursday reported 86 new coronavirus infections in Alaska, including two cases involving non-residents.
Later Thursday, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp. announced. to that a YK Delta resident in her 50s died Thursday at the hospital in Bethel from complications due to COVID-19.
The newly announced death toll, which has not yet been reflected in state data, marks the 30th death of an Alaskan with COVID-19 since the state pandemic arrived in March.
There have been 5,332 known infections in Alaska, involving residents and non-residents, since the pandemic arrived in March, according to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard.
Since March, 187 Alaska residents and four hospitalized non-residents have been admitted with COVID-19.
Twenty-five people were admitted to hospital with COVID-19 as of Thursday, the same as on Wednesday. Six more hospital patients were tested for the coronavirus.
From the newly reported cases, it was not clear how many diseases show symptoms of the virus when tested positive.
Eighty-one of the new cases involved Anchorage residents, plus two in Eagle River.
Twenty-one other cases were reported among residents around the state: 10 in Fairbanks, four in Palmer, four in Wasilla, four in Juneau, three in Kotzebue, two in Kenai, two in Kodiak, two in Utqiagvik, two in Bethel, one in North Pole, one in Douglas, one in Big Lake, one in Houston, one in Nome, and one in Ketchikan.
Among smaller communities, there was one case in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area and one in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area.
There were also two unconscious cases: one in Juneau, and one in an unspecified region of the state.
As of Thursday, 3,163 residents and 627 non-residents were reported to be infected with coronavirus in Alaska. Another 1,328 residents and 185 non-residents were expected to be rehabilitated and out of isolation.
The state positive testing rate reported Thursday was 2.09% over a seven-day moving average.
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