Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported one new coronavirus death and more than 85 new infections, bringing the state’s total to 444 deaths and 27,838 cases since the pandemic began.
A breakdown of the new cases per island and the exact number of new infections – usually available by noon – was not immediately available, as state health officials had not yet released the numbers online at 1:30 p.m. in a tweet today, 33 new cases were reported over Oahu.
No further information was immediately available about the latest death, Blagiardi said in a tweet today was reported on Oahu.
The state’s official death toll includes 353 deaths on Oahu, 53 on Hawaii Island, 34 on Maui, one on Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died outside the state.
The U.S. coronavirus-related death toll today was more than 524,000 and the nationwide infection count is more than 28.9 million.
The statistics released today reflect the new infection cases reported to the department on Thursday.
The total number of cases of coronavirus per island since the onset of the outbreak is 22,086 on Oahu, 2,264 in the province of Hawaii, 2,315 on Maui, 184 on Kauai, 108 on Lanai and 27 on Molokai. There are also 854 residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials also said today that 674 cases of the total infection count of the state 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 increased by 35 today.
Per island, Oahu has 346 active businesses, Maui has 287, the Big Island 37 and Kauai four. Molokai and Lanai have no active cases.
Of all the confirmed cases of Hawaii infection, 1898 required hospitalizations, of which five new hospitalizations were reported today by state health officials.
Seven counties in the census are Hawaii residents who have been diagnosed and treated outside the state. Of the 1,891 hospitalizations in the state, 1,635 were on Oahu, 141 on Maui, 101 on the Big Island, eight 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 27 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals as of Friday morning, with five in intensive care units and three in ventilators.
The state’s Hawaii COVID-19 vaccine summary said Friday that 391,116 vaccines were administered out of the 496,050 the state received. About 16.1% of the general population in Hawaii received at least one dose of the vaccine, while about 64% of those aged 75 years and older received one dose.
Of the vaccines administered, 367,622 were given to the general public and 23,494 were distributed via the federal pharmacy program, officials said.
Oahu moved into the less restricted Tier 3 of the city’s four-tier economic recovery plan on Thursday after being in Tier 2 since Oct. 22. Tier 3 allows social and outdoor recreational gatherings of up to ten people, and restaurants have seating for 10 people at a table, from five now. Tier 3 also allows funeral services with up to 25 participants, and group fitness classes indoors with up to 10 participants. Gym capacity can increase up to 50%. Restaurants and spiritual services can operate at full capacity, as long as the businesses keep a distance of 6 meters.
To determine if Honolulu is going to a different level, the city takes a “weekly review” of two major COVID-19 numbers every Wednesday. To move from Tier 3 to the least restrictive Tier 4, the average of 7 days on two consecutive Wednesdays must be below 20. The average positivity rate of 7 days should also be below 1% on these two Wednesdays. The earliest that Oahu could move into Tier 1 would be at the end of March, as he had to stay in each level for at least four weeks.
According to Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi, Oahu Mayor says 26 days today and the seven-day positive percentage is 1.0%.
This news release will be updated as more information becomes available.