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We re making this important information available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on reader support to do this work. Please consider supporting independent journalism in Alaska, at just $3.69 a week for an online subscription. Alaska on Thursday reported 194 coronavirus infections and 20 COVID-19-related deaths, according to data from the Department of Health and Social Services. State data showed that eight of the newly reported deaths involved residents of Anchorage, along with three people from Fairbanks, one from Delta Junction, three from Wasilla, one from Sitka, one from a smaller community in the Yakutat plus Hoonah-Angoon region, one from the Kusilvak Census Area and one from the Dillingham Census Area. The 20th death involved a nonresident in Fairbanks, according to state data.
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â Through the standard review of death certificates from the past few months, the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services on Thursday reported 20 COVID-19 deaths, two involving residents of Southeast Alaska communities.
Nineteen of the deaths involved Alaska residents and one involved a nonresident, according to a DHSS statement on Thursday.
As of midnight Wednesday, 310 Alaskans and five nonresidents have died of COVID-19.
During a regularly scheduled media briefing on Thursday, DHSS Infectious Disease Program Manager Louisa Castrodale said that none of the deaths recorded on Wednesday were recent and reported Thursday. Basically, these were deaths that occurred as far back as December, Castrodale said. A fair number of them had occurred in February and then some in March.