Alaska COVID-19 Data Summary: June 25, 2021

COVID-19 DATA SUMMARY – June 25, 2021

Reporting data for 12 a.m. - 11:59 p.m. June 23-24

OVERVIEW – 84 new cases | 0 deaths| 19 hospitalizations | Statewide alert level: low | 50% of Alaskans 12+ vaccinated

TAKE ACTION – Choosing to get vaccinated is the single most important action you can take to protect yourself and your community and to reopen our economy. Learn more about the CDC’s recommendations for fully vaccinated people at www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html.

VACCINATIONS – 55% of Alaskans age 12 and older have received at least their first vaccine dose.

50% of Alaskans 12 and older have been fully vaccinated. The higher the vaccination rate, the more protected community members are from COVID-19. See below for percentages of all fully vaccinated Alaskans age 12 and older by region:

• Juneau Region: 71%
• Other Southeast Region - Northern: 66%
• YK-Delta Region: 65%
• Southwest Region: 60%
• Other Southeast Region - Southern: 58%
• Northwest Region: 54%
• Anchorage Region: 52%
• Other Interior Region: 51%
• Fairbanks North Star Borough: 43%
• Kenai Peninsula Region: 43%
• Matanuska-Susitna Region: 34%

For more information about vaccines, visit covidvax.alaska.gov.

CASES – DHSS today announced 84 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska over the past two days:

• June 23 – 34 residents, 7 nonresidents
• June 24 – 40 residents, 3 nonresidents

74 total residents in: Anchorage (37), Hooper Bay (11), Nome Census Area (7), Palmer (4), Eagle River (3), Nome (2), Wasilla (2), and one each in Bethel, Big Lake (1), Craig (1), Fairbanks (1), Ketchikan (1), Kodiak (1), Kotzebue (1), and Soldotna.

Ten new nonresident cases were identified in:

• Anchorage: three in seafood industry, three with purpose under investigation
• Denali Borough: one with purpose under investigation
• Dillingham: one in seafood industry
• Kenai Peninsula Borough South: one with purpose under investigation
• Location under investigation: one with purpose under investigation

Thirty-five resident cases were subtracted from the dashboard due to data verification procedures bringing the total number of Alaska resident cases to 68,218 and the total number of nonresident cases to 2,868.

HOSPITALIZATIONS & DEATHS – There have been a total of 1,606 resident hospitalizations and 367 resident deaths, with four new hospitalizations and no new resident deaths reported. 

There are currently 19 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 who are hospitalized and no additional patients who are considered persons under investigation (PUI) for a total of 19 current COVID-related hospitalizations. Five of these patients are on ventilators. The percentage of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19 is 2%.

TESTING – A total of 2,166,683 tests have been conducted, with 13,431 tests conducted in the previous seven days. The average percentage of daily positive tests for the previous seven days is 1.33%.

Variants of concern situation summary

B.1.1.7 – Alpha (21 added since last report)

• Seeing this variant widely in Alaska and the nation
• Continue to see new importations (for example, cases associated with travel out of state)
• Also seeing instances of secondary and community spread

P.1 – Gamma (8 added since last report)

• Six cases in Anchorage
  • Two unknown sources
  • One unclear if the source is community/secondary transmission
  • One community transmission
  • One secondary transmission
  • One travel-associated
• Two cases in the Mat-Su region
  • One unclear if the source is community/secondary transmission
  • One unknown source

B.1.617.2/AY.1 – Delta (9 added in this report)

• Two cases in Juneau
  • One secondary transmission
  • One travel associated
• Three cases in Anchorage
  • One unknown source
  • One secondary transmission
  • One community transmission
• Two cases in Fairbanks
  • One travel associated
  • One secondary transmission
• One case in a Gulf Coast community
• One Northern travel-associated

Through June 23, the total number of B.1.1.7 (Alpha) cases is 345; P.1 (Gamma) cases is 51; and B.1.617.2/AY.1 (Delta) cases is 13. The weekly genomic surveillance report will be updated online at hss.state.ak.us/covid19/humancov/AKSeqCon_GenomicSituationReport.pdf.

ALERT LEVELS – The current statewide alert level, based on the average daily case rate over 14 days per 100,000, is low at 3.99 cases per 100,000. One region of Alaska is in high alert status with widespread community transmission; two regions are at intermediate alert status with moderate transmission; and eight regions are at low alert with minimal transmission.

High (>10 cases/100,000)

• YK-Delta Region: 19.00 cases per 100,000

Intermediate (>5-10 cases/100,000)

• Northwest Region: 5.50 cases per 100,000
• Other Interior Region: 5.20 cases per 100,000

Low (0-5 cases/100,000)

• Anchorage Municipality: 4.60 cases per 100,000
• Other Southeast Region - Southern: 4.30 cases per 100,000
• Matanuska-Susitna Region: 3.40 cases per 100,000
• Southwest Region: 3.00 cases per 100,000
• Other Southeast Region - Northern: 2.50 cases per 100,000
• Juneau City and Borough: 1.80 cases per 100,000
• Kenai Peninsula Borough: 1.60 cases per 100,000
• Fairbanks North Star Borough: 1.60 cases per 100,000

Notes: Reports are received electronically, by phone and by fax. Cases are verified, redundancies are eliminated and then cases are entered into the data system that feeds into Alaska’s Coronavirus Response Hub. When there is a high number of reports being received, this may cause delays in getting reports entered and counted. Personnel continue to focus on the effort to process and count reports and minimize the delay from receipt to posting on the hub.

There is a lag between cases being reported on the DHSS data dashboard and what local communities report. Each case is an individual person even if they are tested multiple times. Total tests are a not a count of unique individuals tested and includes both positive and negative results. The current number of hospitalized patients represents more real-time data compared to the cumulative total hospitalizations. Current hospitalizations are reported for all facilities, not just general acute care and critical access facilities, as is the default on the dashboard. Total number of hospital beds available fluctuate daily as the number of available hospital staff changes. All data reported in real-time, on a daily basis, should be considered preliminary and subject to change. To view more data visit data.coronavirus.alaska.gov; weekly and daily case summaries are archived at dhss.alaska.gov/dph/Epi/id/Pages/COVID-19/communications.aspx#updates.