Alaska again ranks first out of all U.S. states for its rate of new cases per capita. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Alaska has a rate of 193 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people over the last week.
— 238 on Wednesday and 321 on Tuesday. Of those, 14 were nonresident cases. Cases for the previous seven days are roughly the same when compared to the week of March 11-17, with reported 1,448 this week and 1,444 last week.
The state remains in the “high” alert status for case rates, according to the health department, although eight individual boroughs and census areas have case rates below the threshold for high at either a substantial or moderate level.
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