Seventeen novel coronavirus cases were reported in Cordova from Aug. 4-8, the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services announced. Of those cases, 16 were residents and one was a non-resident. The single non-resident case was a seafood industry worker.
A cumulative total of 294 coronavirus cases have been reported in Cordova, of which 271 have been Alaska residents and 23 have been non-residents, according to DHSS data. A cumulative total of four people who tested positive for the virus have been hospitalized in Cordova. A total of one person who tested positive for the virus has died in Cordova.
Fifty-three percent of people in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area have received at least one dose of novel coronavirus vaccine, according to DHSS data. Sixty-three percent of people age 12 and over in the census area have received at least one dose of vaccine.
