The city has been at a modified high level since early January. Now it’s down to moderate.
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Two children died of COVID-19 in Alaska last year, death certificate review shows
They’re the first COVID-19 deaths of any Alaskan under the age of 20 since the pandemic began, according to health officials.
Omicron drives Alaska to new daily record in COVID cases
Before the arrival of the new variant, the average daily case count had been below 500 since Christmas. Now, between 80% and 95% of cases screened by the state public health lab have had a marker associated with omicron.
Alaska reports 53 COVID-19 deaths
Most of the newly reported deaths happened in September, which was already Alaska’s deadliest month of the pandemic.
September was Alaska’s deadliest month of the COVID pandemic, state data shows
As of Tuesday, the state health department reports that 120 Alaskans died of COVID-19 in September. November 2020 is now the second deadliest month, with 94 deaths.
Alaska’s COVID hospitalizations, patients on ventilators climb over the weekend
As Alaska’s surge in coronavirus cases continues, and COVID patients overwhelm the state’s hospitals, doctors say they’re having to make gut-wrenching decisions about who gets scarce ICU beds.
Alaska reports 10 more resident COVID deaths
The state also added another 694 resident COVID cases, the first time in a week that case counts have dipped below 1,000.
Alaska reports thousands more COVID cases over the weekend
Alaska health officials say the daily totals will fluctuate as they deal with a backlog of reports.
Alaska reports record count of more than 1,700 COVID cases, dozens of deaths from backlog
The state of Alaska reported a new single-day record Friday of 1,735 cases along with 44 deaths over the past year that were newly linked to the coronavirus.