Hawaii health officials today reported four new coronavirus-related deaths and 132 new infections, bringing the state’s total to 332 deaths and 24,870 cases since the pandemic began.
No further details were immediately available regarding the latest deaths associated with the coronavirus on Oahu.
The state’s official death toll includes 262 deaths on Oahu, 45 on the island of Hawaii, 21 on Maui, one on Kauai and three Hawaiian residents who died on the mainland. 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 411,000.
Officials said the new health infection currently reported by the health department was 98 on Oahu, 19 on Maui, five on the Big Island, one on Kauai and nine residents. Due to updated information, one case from Oahu was re-categorized in Kauai and another case in Oahu was removed.
The statistics released today reflect the new infection cases reported to the department on Wednesday.
The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the onset of the outbreak is 20,230 on Oahu, 2113 in Hawaii, 1,550 on Maui, 177 on Kauai, 106 on Lanai and 25 on Molokai. There are also 669 residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials also said today that 1838 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 decreased by 115 today.
Per island, Oahu has 1,326 active businesses, Maui has 354, the Big Island has 139, Kauai has 19, according to the latest version of the state. Lanai and Molokai have no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 5,065 new COVID-19 test results in the current score, for a positive rate of 2.61% nationwide. The state’s 7-day average positivity rate is also 2.4%, according to the Hawaii COVID-19 Data dashboard.
Of all the confirmed cases of Hawaii infection, 1,647 required hospitalizations, with five 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 1,643 hospitalizations in the state, 1,441 were on Oahu, 96 on Maui, 93 on the Big Island, seven on Kauai, five on Lanai and one on Molokai.
According to the latest information on the department’s COVID-19 Data dashboard, a total of 100 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals as of Thursday morning, 23 in intensive care units and 21 on 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 Wednesday.
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 Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s current seven-day average number of cases for Oahu is 77 and the seven-day average positivity rate is 2.9%.
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.
This news release will be updated as more information becomes available.