{"id":61586,"date":"2020-07-01T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/state-counts-42-new-coronavirus-cases\/"},"modified":"2020-07-01T12:50:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T20:50:15","slug":"state-counts-42-new-coronavirus-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/state-counts-42-new-coronavirus-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"State counts 42 new coronavirus cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State of Alaska announced Wednesday 42 additional cases of COVID-19, 38 from residents, four from nonresidents, according to data from the state. No additional cases were reported for Juneau.<\/p>\n<p>The 38 cases involving residents is a new high. The state reported the previous high, 36 cases, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, 17 cases were in the Anchorage Municipality; Seven in the Matanuska-Sustina Borough; five in Kenai Penninsula Borough; three in the Fairbanks North Star Borough; three in the South Fairbanks Census Area and one each for Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Nome Census Area and Northwest Arctic Borough.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference Tuesday, Gov. Mike Dunleavy and other state health officials said the rising number of cases in the state was not matched by a rise in deaths or hospitalizations, and the state had built up its health care capacity to handle a surge in cases. While still refusing to put an order in a mandate, Dunleavy urged Alaskans to wear cloth face coverings in public places with close quarters, such as supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p><ins>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/gov-urges-diligence-ahead-of-holiday-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dunleavy urges diligence ahead of holiday weekend<\/a>] <\/ins><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If I go to a store, I will cover my face. You should think that everybody around you they may be going home to individuals that fall into one of those (vulnerable) categories,&rdquo; Dunleavy said, referring to those at risk from the coronavirus such as the elderly or people with underlying health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Contact tracing was becoming more difficult as the state opened up, Alaska&rsquo;s Chief Medical Officer said at the same press conference, as people were reporting more contacts in more places. Wearing a mask and other health precautions like social distancing and handwashing has been shown to limit the spread of the virus, Zink said, and encouraged Alaskans to follow those guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Dunleavy urged Alaskans to be diligent about health guidelines going into the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None in Juneau. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":61587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[703,648,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-61586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-national-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61586"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=61586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}