The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services reported six new cases of COVID-19, including one from Soldotna. Three new hospitalizations in Alaska were also included in Monday’s update. The total positive case count in the state now stands at 191.
The data from the Department’s new web hub offers details about the patients and their locations. As mentioned, one case was reported from the Kenai Peninsula in Soldotna, two from Anchorage, one from Eagle River, one from Fairbanks, and one from Petersburg. These cases are reported using the new timetable of reporting counts, which includes 12:00 a.m. until 11:59 p.m. on April 5.
Two of the three new hospitalizations were detailed in Monday’s update, including a woman in her 70s in Anchorage and a man in his 80s in Fairbanks. One of the Anchorage cases is reported to have involved travel, while the latest case from Fairbanks was transmitted locally. The four other cases are still under investigation.
Among the numbers that Dr. Anne Zink, Alaska’s Chief Medical Officer, has started to discuss in her daily briefings are the “recovered” patients, meaning people who no longer require isolation and who state epidemiologists deem as being “free of the disease.” The total of recovered patients, as of Monday’s update, stands at 27 out of the 191 total positive cases that have been reported.
There were no new deaths reported on Monday, meaning six Alaskans have died in total.
