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While the statewide case rate stayed stable last week, the numbers of COVID-19 disease in Fairbanks and North Pole shot up. On Wednesday, 111 cases were reported between the two towns. Outside the Fairbanks North Star Borough, other Interior communities surged as well.
Dr. Mark Simon works in the emergency department at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.
I can tell you that everyone who works in the emergency department is saying ‘Wow, there’s a lot of Covid coming in.’ Everyone who is working in the hospital taking care of patients, is saying, ‘Wow, we have a lot of Covid in the hospital right now.’ This is at the level we had at our highest peak in the past.”
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â The Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center recorded two new positive COVID-19 cases on Monday.
One of the cases was related to travel and one was determined to be community spread, according to a Monday update to the EOC s data dashboard.
Two cases also were recorded on Sunday, according to the dashboard. Both cases were related to travel, and one case involved an individual who was not staying in Ketchikan.
As of Monday afternoon, 13 of Ketchikan s 433 total cases were still considered active.
Results were pending from 28 local COVID-19 tests â down from 30 on Friday, according to the dashboard.
The local test positivity rate was 1.70% on Monday.
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Fairbanks North Star Borough saw a sharp spike in new Covid-19 cases this week while the state upward trend slowed.
âWeâve seen some outrageous numbers,â said Fairbanks borough Chief of Staff Jim Williams. âThey were outrageous in a sense that on Wednesday we saw over a hundred new cases â our third highest number.â
On Thursday, only 32 new people contracted the virus across the borough and on Wednesday Fairbanks was leading the state in new cases, according to reports from the Department of Health and Social Services. The city reported 70 new cases on Wednesday while North Pole reported 34, and two more were registered somewhere else in the Fairbanks North Star Borough. With more than 27 cases per 100,000 people in the borough, only Mat-Su is doing worse.