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COVID at a glance for Monday, April 26

Published 10:30 pm Monday, April 26, 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

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 for April 24-26

Alert level: 1 — Minimal

New cases: 3 residents

Test positivity rate: 1.10%

Active cases: 17

Cumulative cases: 1,72 residents, 156 nonresidents

Current hospitalizations: 0

New deaths: 0

Cumulative deaths: 5

Vaccination information: 18,678 people in Juneau have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 15,741 have completed both doses.

State numbers for April 24-26

Alert level: High

New cases: 419 residents and 11 nonresidents

Active cases: Data no longer provided by the state.

Test positivity rate: 2.79%

Cumulative cases: 64,786 residents and 2,723 nonresidents

Current hospitalizations: 39

New deaths: 13 deaths — 12 residents, 1 nonresident — were reported after death certificate review.

Cumulative deaths: 341 residents, 6 nonresidents

Vaccination information: 304,181 people statewide have received their first dose, and 254,470 have completed both doses.

— Juneau Empire

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