Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported three new coronavirus-related deaths and 82 additional infections, bringing the total to 410 deaths and 25,853 cases since the onset of the pandemic.
Two of the most recent deaths were on Oahu and the third in Maui. No further details were immediately released about the deaths.
The official death toll from the state’s official coronavirus includes 327 deaths on Oahu, 53 on Hawaii Island, 26 on Maui, one on Kauai, and three Hawaii residents who died outside the state.
The U.S. coronavirus-related death toll today was nearly 441,000.
Today’s new cases of infection across the country reported by the Department of Health include 59 on Oahu, 11 on the Big Island, eight on Maui and four residents diagnosed outside of Hawaii.
The statistics released today reflect the new infection cases reported to the department on Friday.
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The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the onset of the outbreak is 20,923 on Oahu, 2,162 in Hawaii, 1,734 on Maui, 178 on Kauai, 107 on Lanai and 25 on Molokai. There are also 724 residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed outside the state. As a result of updated information, one case from Maui has been reclassified to the island of Hawaii, state officials said today.
Health officials also said today that 1,412 cases of the state’s total infection count 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 44 today.
Per island, Oahu has 1,040 active cases, Maui has 276, the Big Island has 90, Kauai has five and Lanai has one, according to the state’s latest version. Molokai has no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 4,569 new COVID-19 test results in the current score, with a positive percentage of 1.7% nationwide. According to the COVID-19 Data Dashboard of Hawaii, the average positivity rate of 7 days is 2.2%.
Of all the confirmed cases of Hawaii infection, 1,696 required hospitalizations, with two 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 1,692 state hospitals in the state, 1,484 were on Oahu, 99 on Maui, 96 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 75 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals as of Friday morning, including 20 in intensive care units and 15 in ventilators.
Health officials said as of January 24, 106,654 vaccines would be administered from the 170,975 the state 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.
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 the mayor of Honolulu, Rick Blangiardi, the mayor of Oahu today says for seven days for Oahu is 70 and the seven-day positive percentage is 2.6%.
Blangiardi said 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.