CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020
DHSS today announced three new Alaska resident deaths and 284 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 277 were residents in: Anchorage (125), Kodiak (24), Wasilla (24), Fairbanks (17), Utqiaġvik (10), Juneau (9), Kusilvak Census Area (9), North Pole (9), Palmer (8), Sitka (5), Chugiak (4), Kenai (4), Bethel (2), Bethel Census Area (2), Big Lake (2), Delta Junction (2), Eagle River (2), Homer (2), North Slope Borough (2), Valdez- Cordova Census Area (2), and one each in Bristol Bay/ Lake & Peninsula, Dillingham, Douglas, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Hooper Bay, Ketchikan, Nikiski, Nome Census Area, Seward, Skagway, Soldotna, Sterling, and Tok.
Seven new nonresident cases were identified yesterday:
Anchorage: five in seafood industry
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Thursday brought another surge of new COVID-19 virus deaths and cases across the state and the Interior, adding pressure on hospitals and urgency for new emergency funding and treatments.
Five more Alaskans died from the virus Thursday, including a Fairbanks man in his 80s, according to the state Department of Health and Social Services. Across the state, 626 new people were identified with the virus, 100 of them in Fairbanks and 22 in North Pole.
Among other cities, Anchorage took the biggest blow, seeing 231 cases, while 45 cases were registered in Wasilla, 44 in Kodiak, 19 in Eagle River, 16 in Soldotna, 16 in Juneau, 14 in Bethel and 14 in Kenai.
One COVID-19 death reported in Fairbanks and 100 new cases statewide; state allocating more money to help exhausted hospitals kodiakdailymirror.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kodiakdailymirror.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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