Meanwhile, state officials say continued high numbers of new cases are leading to backlogs in contact tracing and data reporting.ДЄs of Friday, the stateвЂ™s seven-day average test positivity rate - the number of positive tests out of total performed - was 9.58%, a near-record high since the pandemic began. By Friday, 62.2% of eligible Alaskans had received at least one dose of vaccine and 57% were fully vaccinated, according to state data. states in vaccinations per capita earlier this year, Alaska on Friday ranked 32nd. Since March 2020, 454 Alaskans and 15 people from out of state who were in Alaska have died with COVID-19.ДЄfter leading U.S. While cases are high across most of the state, communities on the road system with lower vaccination rates - including Anchorage, Fairbanks, the Mat-Su and most of the Kenai Peninsula - appear to be hardest hit. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper. The Daily Nation was started in the year 1958 as a Swahili weekly called Taifa by the Englishman Charles Hayes. Daily Nation Today: You can read the leading paper in Kenya by clicking here: Daily Nation.

Of the 893 new cases reported Friday, 875 involved residents and 18 involved nonresidents. Daily Nation Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports. Anne Zink, AlaskaвЂ™s chief medical officer, this week encouraged Alaskans with less serious or longer-term health concerns to consider visiting urgent care or walk-up health clinics instead of overwhelmed emergency rooms.Д«ecause COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths lag a few weeks behind surges in cases, AlaskaвЂ™s overburdened hospitals arenвЂ™t likely to see relief anytime soon. Providence Alaska Medical Center, the stateвЂ™s largest hospital, this week began rationing care under crisis-care protocols, while most other facilities reported similar levels of stress.Дr. Of those that have, fewer have overwhelmed their hospitals to the crisis levels Alaska is now experiencing. Hospitals say virus hospitalization numbers are likely an undercount of the true impact of COVID-19, since they donвЂ™t include some long-term COVID-19 patients who no longer test positive but still need hospital care.ДЇew states have surpassed their winter-level surges the way Alaska has in recent weeks. In all, about 1 in 5 hospitalized Alaskans have COVID-19. Patients with the virus accounted for nearly half the stateвЂ™s intensive-care unit patients.

More than half of the current hospitalizations were concentrated in Anchorage, and included 33 people on ventilators. ThatвЂ™s a slight drop from earlier in the week but still a near-record, and far higher than the hospitalization numbers reported over last winterвЂ™s peak. in recent months.Д«ut while other states have very recently begun to see plateauing case counts, Alaska continues to report pandemic-high counts that the state epidemiologist said this week shows little sign of slowing.ДЄccording to a tracker compiled by The New York Times, Alaska by Friday was third in the nation for new daily case rates and in the top five for new hospitalizations over the past two weeks.Д«y Friday, a total of 204 COVID-positive patients were in hospitals statewide, according to state data. (Emily Mesner / ADN)ДЄlaska ended a week of record COVID-19 cases and elevated hospitalizations with another high count of 893 new COVID-19 infections and one new death reported Friday.ДЄlaskaвЂ™s surge - currently one of the worst in the country - is driven by the highly contagious delta variant, which has pushed up case counts, hospitalizations and deaths across most of the U.S. NovemWith social and economic activities resuming following the lifting of the COVID-19 state of emergency in early October, many are mulling whether the traditional year-end workplace вЂњbonenkaiвЂќ parties are still worth attending.A woman with Capstone Clinic prepares to administer a COVID-19 test for a patient at the new testing site outside the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage on Tuesday, Sept. Survey finds many weary of the workplace вЂbonenkaiвЂ™ party NovemA Filipino woman caught running a tax fraud business in Japan and her 70 or so clients have beenВ ordered to pay 50 million yen ($440,000) together in back taxes,В sources said. 30 as a precautionary measure to ward off the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.ДЇilipino woman who ran scam to get tax refunds, 70 clients fined NovemOnly three weeks after easing some travel restrictions,В Japan will again bar the entry of foreign visitors from Nov. Japan to ban global travelers amid fears about Omicron variant

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