Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported one new coronavirus-related fatal disease and 95 new infections.
No further information was immediately available about the latest death on Oahu.
The state’s official coronavirus death toll includes 338 deaths on Oahu, 53 on Hawaii Island, 29 on Maui, one on Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died outside the state.
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus is more than 473,000 today, as the nationwide count has climbed to 27.3 million.
Officials said the new health infections were diagnosed today by the health department 63 in Oahu, 19 on Maui, three on the Big Island, one on Molokai and nine residents.
The statistics released today reflect the new infection cases reported to the department on Tuesday.
The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the onset of the outbreak is 21,484 on Oahu, 2,206 in Hawaii, 1,901 on Maui, 179 on Kauai, 109 on Lanai and 26 on Molokai. There are also 770 residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed outside the state. As a result of updated information, one case in Maui has been regrouped for residents diagnosed outside the state, two cases over Oahu and two cases from outside Hawaii have been removed, officials said today.
Health officials also said today that 1,078 cases of the state’s total infection count are considered active. Officials say they view infections reported over the past 14 days as a ‘proxy number for active cases’. The number of active cases in the state decreased by seven today.
Per island, Oahu has 782 active cases, Maui 222, the Big Island 67, Kauai has three, Lanai has two and Molokai has one, according to the state’s latest version.
Health officials count 5,184 new COVID-19 test results in the current score, for a 1.83% positive percentage nationwide. The state’s 7-day average positivity rate is 1.4%, according to the Hawaii COVID-19 Data dashboard.
Of all the confirmed cases of Hawaii infection, 1,775 required hospitalizations, with nine new hospitalizations reported by health officials today.
Four counties in the census are Hawaii residents who have been diagnosed and treated outside the state. Of the 1,771 hospitalizations in the state, 1,551 were on Oahu, 107 on Maui, 100 on the Big Island, seven on Kauai, five on Lanai and one on Molokai.
According to the latest information from the department’s COVID-19 Data dashboard, a total of 52 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals as of Wednesday morning, with 14 in intensive care units and 12 in ventilators.
Health officials said that as of Sunday, 218,997 vaccines had been administered out of the 288,050 the state had received. Of the vaccines administered, 201,553 were given to the general public and 17,444 were distributed through the federal pharmacy program, officials said. According to Sunday, nearly 11% of the general population of Hawaii and 47% of residents 75 years and older received at least one dose. Government officials release the verified updated vaccination numbers every Wednesday.
Oahu moved to the less restrictive Level 2 of Honolulu’s four-tier economic recovery plan on October 22. To determine if Honolulu will move to another level, the city takes a “weekly review” of two major COVID-19 numbers every Wednesday. . To move to Level 3 from Level 2, the average of 7 days on two consecutive Wednesdays must be below 50. The average positivity rate of 7 days should also be below 2.5% on these two Wednesdays.
According to Eastern Mayor Rick Blangiardi, the current seven-day score for Oahu is 50 and the seven-day positive percentage is 1.8%. Blangiardi said he hopes to stay in Tier 2, a four-level framework set up by former Mayor Kirk Caldwell. Under Tier 3, social gatherings of up to 10 were allowed, compared to 5 under Tier 2, and retail businesses will be able to operate at full capacity, rather than 50% under Tier 2.
This news release will be updated as more information becomes available.