Alaska health officials Wednesday reported another 20 new cases of COVID-19 among residents, along with five new cases in out-of-state residents.
Reports of positive tests Tuesday came from around the state, with the most in Fairbanks, which for weeks saw no cases but started reporting new ones last week
There are now 246 active cases in Alaska -- people with positive tests who haven’t yet recovered -- which marks yet another new high since the pandemic hit Alaska in March, according to the Department of Health and Social Services COVID-19 dashboard.
Alaska’s cases, in the single digits for weeks, began rising again in late May after Gov. Mike Dunleavy lifted COVID-related restrictions to allow the economy to reopen.
Health officials say the numbers now go up and down daily, but hospitalizations and deaths are staying relatively low.
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The state reported just one new hospitalization Wednesday, bringing the total over that four-month period to 54. Hospitals around the state say there are 23 people with positive cases or those under investigation right now, a slight increase. None of them required ventilators as of Wednesday.
The new cases bring the state’s total to 778: 696 among residents, and another 82 in out-of-state residents. It’s not clear how sick the positive cases are, or whether they’re showing symptoms.
Three of the five new nonresident cases traveled here for mining activities, according to state data. One was affiliated with the seafood industry in Ketchikan. One was classified as “other” in Nome.
Among residents, the state reported six new cases in Fairbanks, two new cases in Anchorage and Palmer, and one case each in Chugiak, Eagle River, Soldotna, Kodiak, the North Slope Borough -- that region’s second case -- as well as Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka and Wrangell.
The source of the new cases in Fairbanks wasn’t immediately clear Wednesday. Last week, an employee of the Pioneer Home there tested positive. State officials at the time said the risk to residents was very low.
The person from the North Slope region who tested positive was being treated for another reason at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, according to Tim Rowe, public information officer for the Arctic Slope Native Association. They received a positive test result through a rapid test Tuesday
A second, confirmatory test result came back negative and the patient is waiting on the results of another confirmatory test, according to an association release.
The person’s home community was not announced to protect the individual’s privacy, the association said. A team from Samuel Simonds Memorial Hospital went to the unnamed community to aid in testing and answer questions.
The new case in Kodiak brings the island community’s total to five: three among residents and two among out-of-state seafood industry workers, officials there say. Two of the community’s cases have recovered; the other three are being monitored but not showing symptoms.
The way the Juneau case was contracted remains under investigation, officials there said Wednesday. Of 38 people from Juneau who tested positive for COVID-19 since March, three cases are active and 35 people have recovered.
Reporter Morgan Krakow contributed to this story.
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