Alaska health officials on Monday reported 794 new COVID-19 infections in residents and no deaths over a five-day period that included the Christmas holiday
Felicia Moore draws a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 while working at the Anchorage School District Education Center vaccine clinic on Nov. 3, 2021.
The state reported no new deaths. Since the start of the pandemic, at least 945 residents and 31 nonresidents have died from COVID-19. So far, state health officials have reported two cases involving the new omicron variant in Alaska. While much is still unknown about the new variant,suggests that omicron may cause milder illness than the delta variant but may be more transmissible and less often deterred by vaccines.
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