Hawaii health officials today reported three new coronavirus-related deaths to Oahu and 119 new infections, bringing the state’s total to 328 deaths and 24,739 cases since the pandemic began.
The most recent deaths associated with the coronavirus include two men – one in his 60s, the other in his 80s – and a woman in her 90s. All had underlying health conditions and were admitted to hospital, the health department said this afternoon.
The state’s official death toll includes 258 deaths on Oahu, 45 on the island of Hawaii, 21 on Maui, one on Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died on the continent. The Hawaii Civil Defense Agency said the COVID-19 death toll on the Big Island remained at 51, but government officials did not confirm coronavirus as a factor in six of the deaths. Hawaii County has not reported any coronavirus-related deaths in the past three weeks.
The US death toll from coronavirus today was more than 408,000.
Today’s new cases of infection across the country reported by the Department of Health include 66 on Oahu, 30 on Maui, 16 on the Big Island, and seven residents diagnosed outside of Hawaii.
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 20133 on Oahu, 2,108 in Hawaii County, 1,531 on Maui, 176 on Kauai, 106 on Lanai and 25 on Molokai. There are also 660 residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials also said today that 1,953 cases of the state’s total infection count are being actively considered. 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 174 today.
Per island, Oahu has 1,427 active cases, Maui has 353, the Big Island has 144, Kauai has 22 and Molokai has two, according to the state’s latest version. Lanai has no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 4,503 new COVID-19 test results in the current count, which has a positive percentage of 2.5% across the country. The state’s 7-day average positivity rate is also 2.5%, according to the Hawaii COVID-19 Data dashboard.
Of all the confirmed cases of Hawaii infection, 1,642 required hospitalizations, with 22 new hospitalizations – 19 on Oahu and three in Maui – 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 1,638 hospitalizations in the state, 1437 were on Oahu, 95 on Maui, 93 on the Big Island, seven on Kauai, five on Lanai and one on Molokai.
According to the latest information from the department’s Hawaii COVID-19 Data Dashboard, a total of 103 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals as of Wednesday morning, with 21 in intensive care units and 15 in ventilators.
Health officials said that as of Sunday, 70,095 vaccines had been administered out of the 154,150 that the state had received. The vaccinations per country are Honolulu, 39,886; Maui, 10 195; Hawaii, 7,011; and Kauai, 5,328. The total also included 7,675 administered under the federal pharmacy program. Government officials announce the updated vaccination numbers every week.
Oahu moves to the less restrictive Level 2 of the four-tier economic recovery plan in Honolulu on October 22. To determine if Honolulu is going to 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 the mayor of Honolulu, Rick Blangiardi, the mayor of Oahu today for seven days for Oahu is 79 and the seven days average positive percentage.
Blangiardi said last week he hopes to stay in Tier 2, a four-story 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.