That case was tested on Monday and is labeled as community spread. No one is currently hospitalized in Kodiak with the virus. There have been 1,045 cases in the borough so far. Cases have been falling in Kodiak and Alaska for several weeks now. But state public health officials said Alaska is not out of the woods just yet. New variants of the virus have appeared in other parts of the world and one, called B.1.1.7., has been detected once in Alaska. Experts think the strain is 50% more transmissible than the current strain of COVID. âThis is not time to let our guard down,'' State Epidemiologist Joe McLaughlin said in a question-and-answer session with the public on Wednesday.Â