Numbers come from reports from the City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center and the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, as well as updates from the Alaska Coronavirus Response Hub and City and Borough of Juneau COVID-19 Dashboard. The city and state will begin providing COVID-19 data updates on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays instead of daily. COVID at a glance will follow that schedule.
Local numbers for Jan. 5-6
Alert level:Modified high
New cases: 199 residents, 3 nonresidents
Test positivity rate: 17%
Cumulative cases: 4,704 residents and 325 nonresidents
Current hospitalizations: 0
New deaths: 0
Cumulative deaths: 17 residents, 1 nonresident
Vaccination information: 83 % of Juneau’s eligible population (79% overall) has received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 78% of eligible Juneau residents (74% overall) have completed a full vaccination series.
State numbers for Jan. 5-6
Alert level: High
New cases: 3,534 residents, 106 nonresidents
Test positivity rate: 18.75%
Cumulative cases: 158,436 residents and 5,917 nonresidents
Current hospitalizations: 74
New deaths: 1
Cumulative deaths: 948 residents, 32 nonresidents
Vaccination information: 67.8% of Alaska’s eligible population ( 60.6% overall) has received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 63.4% of eligible Alaskans (56.6% overall) have completed a full vaccination series.
— Juneau Empire
