By Sentinel Staff
Two new nonresident COVID-19 cases were posted Tuesday on Sitka’s dashboard.
The two, a boy and a girl age 10-19, were tested Jan. 16 and 15. Both are nonresidents, and contact tracing is in process. The transmission classification is “travel” indicating the transmission occurred while they were outside of Alaska during some or all of their exposure period.
The number of current active cases is 9, and the 14-day rolling case rate is 1.57 cases per day. The cumulative resident total is 275, with 32 nonresidents.
Sitka saw an uptick in nonresident cases in the last week (Jan. 13-19), with five nonresident cases, in addition to the six residents on the dashboard.
Sitka has been in the “high” risk category since early November, although the risk level was at “moderate” for two days after going to a case average of one or fewer two weeks ago.
In the last week, the dashboard showed Sitka had two days without new positive COVID tests of either residents or nonresidents; and four days without positive resident tests.
The dashboard is generally updated by 5 p.m. daily. The latest test statistics show 45,148 tests performed with results received for 45,058, and 91 pending. Of the 324 positive results for residents and nonresidents, 289 are unique positive results. A total of 44,744 were negative.
