The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services announced 232 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska on Saturday.
230 are residents in 29 communities. Anchorage reported the most with 128 cases. Kenai reported six. Sterling reported two. Seward and Soldotna both reported one each.
Two new nonresident cases, both with purposes still under investigation, were identified in Anchorage and and Soldotna.
Twenty resident cases and one nonresident case have been added to the data dashboard through data verification procedures. This brings the total number of Alaska resident cases to 9,431 and the total number of nonresident cases to 997. The current statewide alert level, based on the average daily case rate for the past 14 days, is high.
Of the 230 Alaska residents, 112 are male and 116 are female. 11 are under the age of 10; 20 are aged 10-19; 42 are aged 20-29; 51 are aged 30-39; 38 are aged 40-49; 32 are aged 50-59; 28 are aged 60-69; seven are aged 70-79 and one is aged 80 or older.
There have been a total of 319 hospitalizations and 60 deaths, with no new deaths reported yesterday. Individuals who no longer require isolation (recovered cases) total 5,136.
There are currently 44 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 who are hospitalized and 22 additional patients who are considered persons under investigation (PUI) for a total of 66 current COVID-related hospitalizations. Five of these patients are on ventilators. Please note that dashboard is currently showing incorrect hospitalization numbers but will be corrected soon. For current hospitalization numbers, please refer to Table 6 in the Data Summary Tables.
A total of 499,253 tests have been conducted, with 9,832 tests conducted in the previous seven days. The average percentage of daily positive tests for the previous seven days is 4.52%.
For the Kenai Peninsula Borough, there are 39 active cases in Kenai. 28 active cases in Soldotna. 22 active cases in Homer. 17 in Seward and 8 in Sterling.
For the Kenai Peninsula Borough, the estimated daily growth rate is 6.44%.
