Hawaii government officials today reported two new coronavirus-related deaths and 200 infections, bringing the total to 309 deaths and 23,341 cases since the start of the pandemic.
The deaths included a person on Oahu and one Hawaii resident who was diagnosed outside the state. No further details about the deaths were immediately available.
The state’s official death toll includes 243 deaths on Oahu, 45 on the island of Hawaii, 18 on Maui, one on Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died on the continent. The Hawaii Civil Defense Agency said today that the COVID-19 mortality rate on the Big Island remained at 51, but government officials did not confirm coronavirus as a factor in six of the deaths.
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Officials say the nationwide new cases of infection reported by the Department of Health today include 128 on Oahu, 30 on Maui, 12 on the Big Island, nine on Kauai, and 21 residents diagnosed outside of Hawaii. Due to updated information, one case from Oahu and one from abroad were removed from the charges.
The statistics released today reflect the new cases of infection reported to the department on Friday.
The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the onset of the outbreak is 19,198 on Oahu, 2,006 in Hawaii, 1,277 on Maui, 166 on Kauai, 106 on Lanai and 25 on Molokai. There are also 563 residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials in Hawaii said today that 2,152 cases of the state’s total infection count are considered active. Health officials say they have considered a “proxy number for active cases” for the past 14 days due to infections. The number of active cases in the state increased by 84 today.
On the island, Oahu has 1,598 active cases, Maui has 384, the Big Island has 144, and Kauai has 23, and Molokai has three, according to the state’s latest version. Lanai has no active COVID cases.
Of all the confirmed cases of Hawaii infection, 1,558 required hospitalizations, with 15 new hospitalizations reported today by state health officials.
Four counties in the census are Hawaii residents who have been diagnosed and treated outside the state. Of the 1,554 hospitalizations in the state, 1370 were on Oahu, 92 on the Big Island, 79 on Maui, 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 129 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals from 8:30 a.m. Friday, with 24 in intensive care units and 20 on ventilators.
State health officials announced Thursday that they have begun placing the total number of vaccinations administered across the country. As of Saturday, the department said 25,470 individuals had been vaccinated – including 17,991 in Honolulu County, 3,013 in Maui County, 2,526 in Hawaii County and 1,940 in Kauai County. The vaccination numbers are updated weekly.
Oahu moved to the less restrictive Level 2 of Honolulu’s four-tier economic recovery plan on October 22. To determine if Honolulu is going to move to another level, the city takes a “weekly review” of two key 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 Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi, who said Thursday that Oahu will stay on Tier 2, the seven-day average case for Oahu is 129 and the seven-day positive percentage is 4.1%.