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COVID at a glance for Thursday, April 15

Published 10:30 pm Wednesday, April 14, 2021

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. A medical director at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control says the numbers of active COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern are higher than what has been publicly reported in the province. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NIAID-RML via AP

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, blue/pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. A medical director at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control says the numbers of active COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern are higher than what has been publicly reported in the province. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NIAID-RML via AP

These numbers come from reports from the City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center and the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, as well as updates from the Alaska Coronavirus Response Hub and City and Borough of Juneau COVID-19 Dashboard.

Local numbers

Alert level: 1 — Minimal

New cases: 8 residents, 1 nonresidents

Test positivity rate: 1.05%

Active cases: 26

Cumulative cases: 1,246 residents, 155 nonresidents

Current hospitalizations: 0

New deaths: 0

Cumulative deaths: 5

Vaccination information: 17,418 people in Juneau have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 14,369 have completed both doses.

State numbers

Alert level: High

New cases: 185 residents, 9 nonresidents

Active cases: Data no longer provided by the state.

Test positivity rate: 3.05%

Cumulative cases: 62,876 residents and 2,660 nonresidents

Current hospitalizations: 39

New deaths: 20 —1 in December, 10 in February and 9 in March.

Cumulative deaths: 329 residents, 5 nonresidents.

Vaccination information: 274,524 people statewide have received their first dose, and 225,226 have completed both doses.

— Juneau Empire

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