Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported two new coronavirus deaths to Oahu and 75 new coronavirus infections nationwide, bringing the state’s total to 418 deaths and 26,468 cases since the start of the pandemic.
No further information was immediately available on the latest deaths.
The state’s official death toll includes 335 deaths on Oahu, 53 on the island of Hawaii, 26 on Maui, one on Kauai, and three Hawaii residents who died outside the state.
The U.S. coronavirus-related death toll today was more than 463,000 and the total number of infections approached 27 million; both figures are by far the highest in the world.
Today’s new cases of infection across the country reported by the Department of Health include 52 in Oahu, 14 in Maui, seven on the Big Island, and two 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 21,241 on Oahu, 2,195 in Hawaii County, 1,863 on Maui, 179 on Kauai, 109 on Lanai and 25 on Molokai. There are also 756 residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed outside the state. Due to updated information, one case over Maui has been reclassified under Oahu, health officials said today.
Health officials also said today that 1,247 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 71 today.
Per island, Oahu has 911 active cases, Maui has 258, the Big Island has 72, Kauai and Lanai each have three, according to the state’s latest version. Molokai has no active COVID cases.
Health officials count 4696 new COVID-19 test results in today’s score, for a positive percentage of 1.5% nationwide. The state’s 7-day average positivity rate is 1.8%, according to the Hawaii COVID-19 Data dashboard.
The number of coronavirus tests administered since the onset of the pandemic in Hawaii has exceeded more than 1 million, according to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard, for a total of 1,002,019.
Of all the confirmed cases of Hawaii infection, 1,749 required hospitalizations, with four new hospitalizations – three on Oahu and one on the Big Island – 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 1,745 hospitalizations in the state, 1,529 were on Oahu, 104 on Maui, 99 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, there were a total of 64 patients with the virus in Hawaii hospitals on Friday morning, with 17 in intensive care units and 13 in ventilators.
Health officials said as of January 31, 157,018 vaccines had been administered out of the 227,600 the state had received. The vaccines administered per country are Honolulu, 105,500; Maui, 14,391; Hawaii, 15,035 and Kauai, 11,755. The total also includes 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 Eastern Mayor Rick Blangiardi, the current seven-day case for Oahu is 60 and the average positive percentage of seven days is 2.4%.
This news release will be updated as more information becomes available.