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We re making this important information available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on reader support to do this work. Please consider supporting independent journalism in Alaska, at just $1.99 for the first month of your subscription. Alaska on Friday reported 249 coronavirus infections and no COVID-19-related deaths, according to data from the Department of Health and Social Services. No coronavirus-related deaths have been reported in Alaska for 22 days, marking the state’s longest stretch without any COVID-19 deaths since last April. Alaska’s death rate per capita is still among the lowest in the country. In total, 309 Alaskans and four nonresidents with COVID-19 have died since the pandemic reached the state last spring.
The Kanakanak Hospital in Dillingham. Taken 11/19/2020
Credit Brian Venua/KDLG
Thirteen residents of the Dillingham Census Area tested positive for COVID-19 between April 6 and 7.
According to a press release from the Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation, the cases are travel related and their households have been advised to isolate. The state epidemiology team has begun contact tracing.
In Dillingham, COVID-19 tests are available from 12 noon to 6:30 p.m. near the airport at the Capstone Clinic in the Freshwater Adventures building.
People 16 and older in Bristol Bay can receive vaccines for the virus in all communities from BBAHC. Appointments to schedule vaccinations can be made in Dillingham by calling (907) 842-9440 or by contacting your local health clinic.
Bristol Bay Borough (Camai Clinic): 220 first doses, 178 second doses
Feb. 19, 2021
Southcentral Foundation: 337 Moderna vaccine doses overall; 58 people have received both doses of the vaccine. Due to the increase in cases statewide, certain areas of data entry are lagging far behind real-time and we are not able to update cases with the date they are released from isolation (recovered). As a result, we are removing the active and recovered case counts from the data hub to prevent inaccurate or outdated information from being reported.
A note on case counts: KDLG generally reports COVID-19 case counts from the Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation, the Camai Community Health Center in Naknek, and the state health department. BBAHC says that it reports cases it has identified, while the state’s dashboard reports cases from a wide range of sources. The timing of these announcements sometimes doesn t line up because the state s reporting is not immediately synchronized with reg
CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021
DHSS today announced 184 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 158 were residents in: Anchorage (31), Bethel Census Area (28), Wasilla (18), Kusilvak Census Area (17), Fairbanks (16), Palmer (14), Bethel (9), North Pole (4), Juneau (3), Chugiak (2), Dillingham Census Area (2), Eagle River (2), Ketchikan (2), Valdez-Cordova Census Area/Copper River (2) and one each in Dillingham, Douglas, Kenai, Nome Census Area, North Slope Borough, Petersburg, Sitka and Unalaska.
Twenty-six new nonresident cases were identified yesterday in:
Aleutians East Borough: 23 in seafood industry
Unalaska: two with purposes under investigation
Location under investigation: one with purpose under investigation
One nonresident case was added to the dashboard due to data verification procedures bringing the total number of Alaska resident cases to 53,114 and the total number of nonresident cases to 1,891.
CASE COUNT SUMMARY, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021
DHSS today announced 226 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 178 were residents in: Anchorage (45), Wasilla (32), Palmer (24), Fairbanks (14), Eagle River (6), Bethel Census Area (5), Dillingham Census Area (5), Juneau (5), Tok (4), Ketchikan (3), Kodiak (3), North Pole (3), Sitka (3), Southeast Fairbanks Census Area (3), Valdez-Cordova Census Area – Copper River (3), Nome Census Area (2), Seward (2), Unalaska (2), and one each in Aleutians East Borough, Anchor Point, Bethel, Big Lake, Douglas, Homer, Houston, Kusilvak Census Area, Nikiski, Petersburg, Soldotna, Utqiaġvik, Valdez, and Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area.
Forty-eight new nonresident cases were identified yesterday in:
Anchorage: 21 in seafood industry and two with purposes under investigation
Aleutians East Borough: 15 in seafood industry