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COVID at a glance for Thursday, April 29.

Published 10:30 pm Wednesday, April 28, 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

Data unavailable due to prolonged internet outage.

State numbers

Alert level: High

New cases: 158 residents and 3 nonresidents

Active cases: Data no longer provided by the state.

Test positivity rate: 2.8%

Cumulative cases: 65,266 residents and 2,736 nonresidents

Current hospitalizations: 54

New deaths: 0

Cumulative deaths: 341 residents, 6 nonresidents

Vaccination information: 307,274 people statewide have received their first dose, and 259,448 have completed both doses.

— Juneau Empire

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