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Alaska reported one new death and 78 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday as active virus cases continued to ascend statewide.
The newly reported death was in Anchorage woman in her 50s who had pre-existing conditions, the state health department said in a statement Saturday.
According to the state’s COVID-19 data dashboard updated Saturday, another person confirmed to be infected with the virus was hospitalized, bringing that total to 99 since the start of the pandemic.
Between residents and nonresidents, there are 1,335 active cases of the illness statewide as of Saturday while 806 people were listed as recovered. In total, the state has seen 2,159 confirmed cases of COVID-19: 1,795 residents and 364 non-Alaskans.
In Anchorage, new cases involve 31 residents and four nonresidents. There was also one case each involving residents of Chugiak and Eagle River.
The state’s data dashboard on Saturday showed that six nonresident seafood workers newly tested positive for COVID-19 in Unalaska.
Unalaska officials announced Friday that six crew members of a Bering Sea trawler who arrived to “offload frozen product” there Thursday tested positive for COVID-19. The American Triumph vessel is part of the American Seafoods fleet and left for Alaska from Oregon on June 27, according to a statement from the company.
In May and June, American Seafoods had crew members from three vessels test positive for the illness, including four crew members on the The American Triumph and 94 on the American Dynas