There have been 83 individuals with COVID-19, together with one individual on a ventilator, hospitalized in Alaska as of Wednesday, in keeping with the state well being division.
Listed below are different highlights from this week’s up to date COVID-19 knowledge from the Alaska Division of Well being:
• The hospitalizations reported Wednesday had been down barely from the earlier week, when 85 individuals had been hospitalized with the virus. However that’s nonetheless increased than two weeks in the past, when 67 individuals with COVID-19 had been hospitalized.
• The state well being division didn’t report any new COVID-19 deaths.
• In Alaska, 2,946 new circumstances had been reported over a seven-day interval, a lower from 3,815 circumstances reported final week. That knowledge doesn’t embrace at-home assessments, which have turn out to be more and more widespread however don’t get reported.
• Alaska’s seven-day case charge per 100,000 now ranks eighth amongst U.S. states, in keeping with a CDC tracker.
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• Statewide, 71.9% of individuals age 5 and older had obtained at the least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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