Health officials in Hawaii today reported 46 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total to 21,028 cases since the onset of the pandemic.
The state Department of Health has not reported any new deaths, but Hawaii province officials said Sunday that one coronavirus-related death on the Big Island was reported last week. They gave no details about the latest deaths, but sympathized with the person’s family and friends.
The state’s official death toll from coronavirus remains at 285, with the Department of Health counting 221 deaths on Oahu, 44 on the island of Hawaii, 17 on Maui, one on Kauai, and two Hawaii residents dying on the continent.
The US death toll from coronavirus rose above 334,000 today as coronavirus cases across the country were 19.2 million higher.
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Officials said 30 new cases of infection were reported across the country by the health department, including 30 on Oahu, 13 on Maui, two on the Big Island, one on Kauai. Due to updated information, one Oahu case was removed from the charges.
The statistics released today reflect the new infection cases reported to the department on Saturday.
Health officials counted 2,343 COVID-19 new test results in the current score for a 1.96% across the country’s positivity.
The total number of cases of coronavirus per island since the onset of the outbreak is 17,634 on Oahu, 1,864 in Hawaii, 906 on Maui, 144 on Kauai, 106 on Lanai and 22 on Molokai. There are also 352 residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials in Hawaii said 1,558 cases of the state’s total infection count are considered active. Health officials say they have considered a “proxy number for active cases” for the past 14 days due to infections. The number of active cases in the state decreased by 143 today.
According to the latest version, Oahu has 1,216 active cases, Maui has 201, the Big Island 132 and Kauai nine. Molokai and Lanai no longer have active COVID cases.
Of all the confirmed cases of Hawaii infection, 1,446 required hospitalizations, with one new hospitalization reported today by state health officials.
Three hospitalizations in the census are residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed and treated outside the state. Of the 1,443 hospitalizations in the state, 1,271 were on Oahu, 87 on the Big Island, 72 on Maui, 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 73 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals from 8:30 a.m. Thursday, with 13 in intensive care units and 12 on ventilators.
On October 22, Oahu moved to the less restrictive Level 2 of Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s four-level economic recovery plan. The mayor’s office says that to determine if Honolulu is going to a different 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.
The average seven-day case score for Oahu today is 69 and according to Caldwell, the positivity rate is 3.0%.
Caldwell had earlier said new infections among inmates at the Halawa Correctional Facility would no longer be counted in his criteria for the recovery plan. A recent group in jail has increased Honolulu’s infection count and threatened to send Oahu back to Tier 1, the mayor’s most restrictive system.