Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported three new coronavirus deaths and 103 additional infections, bringing the state’s total to 404 deaths and 25,442 cases since the start of the pandemic.
The state’s death toll also includes 59 confirmed but previously unreported COVID-19-related deaths that were officially added to Hawaii’s death toll on Tuesday.
The three new deaths reported today include two over Oahu and one over Maui. No other details were immediately released.
The state’s official death toll includes 322 deaths on Oahu, 53 on Hawaii Island, 25 on Maui, one on Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died on the continent.
The US death toll from coronavirus today was more than 427,000.
Officials say the new infestation cases reported by the health department today are 64 on Oahu, 27 on Maui, three on the Big Island and nine residents diagnosed outside Hawaii.
The statistics released today reflect the new infection cases reported to the department on Monday.
The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the onset of the outbreak is 20,642 in Oahu, 2,132 in the province of Hawaii, 1,661 in Maui, 178 in Kauai, 106 in Lanai and 25 in Molokai. There are also 698 residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials also said today that 1,613 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 increased by one today.
Per island, Oahu has 1,191 active businesses, Maui has 319, the Big Island 95, Kauai eight, according to the latest version of the state. Lanai and Molokai have no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 4,500 new COVID-19 test results in the current score, for a 2.1% positive percentage nationwide. According to the Hawaii COVID-19 Data dashboard, the average 7-day average positivity rate of the state is 2.5%.
Of all the confirmed cases of Hawaii infection, 1,673 required hospitalizations, with four new hospitalizations on Oahu 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 1,669 hospitalizations in the state, 1464 were on Oahu, 98 on Maui, 94 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 82 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals Tuesday morning, with 21 in intensive care units and 18 on ventilators.
Health officials said that as of Sunday, 106,654 vaccines had been administered out of the 170,975 the state had received. The vaccines administered per country are Honolulu, 68,521; Maui, 11,060; Hawaii, 10,459 and Kauai, 8,799. The total also contains a few thousand administered under the federal pharmacy program. Government officials release the verified updated vaccination numbers every Wednesday.
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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 Eastern Mayor Rick Blangiardi, Oahu is averaging 81 for seven days today and the seven-day positive percentage is 3.0%.
This news release will be updated as more information becomes available.