Health officials in Hawaii today reported 76 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total to 21,103 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 was reported on the Big Island last week. They gave no details about the latest deaths, but sympathized with the person’s family and friends.
The state’s official coronavirus death toll 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 mainland. has.
The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said today the COVID-19 death toll on the Big Island remains at 51.
The death toll from the American coronavirus rose above 336,000 today, as cases of coronavirus across the country were 19.4 million higher. The first reported US case of the COVID-19 variant, which played across the UK, was announced in Colorado today.
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Today’s new cases of infection across the country reported by the Department of Health include 56 in Oahu, nine on Maui, seven on the Big Island, four residents diagnosed outside of Hawaii. 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 Sunday.
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Health officials counted 3,070 COVID-19 new test results in the current score, for a positive rate of 2.48% nationwide.
The total number of cases of coronavirus per island since the onset of the outbreak is 17,689 on Oahu, 1,871 in Hawaii, 915 on Maui, 144 on Kauai, 106 on Lanai and 22 on Molokai. There are also 356 residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials in Hawaii said that of the state’s total infection count, 1,577 cases 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 increased by 19 today.
According to the latest version, Oahu has 1,237 active cases, Maui 202, the Big Island 129 and Kauai nine. Molokai and Lanai no longer have active COVID cases.
Of all the confirmed cases of Hawaii infection, 1,452 required hospitalizations, with six new hospitalizations 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 1,449 hospitalizations in the state, 1,276 were on Oahu, 88 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 89 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals at 8:30 a.m. Monday, including 14 in intensive care units and 11 in ventilators.
On October 22, Oahu moved to the less restrictive Level 2 of Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s four-tier economic recovery plan. 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.
Correction: An earlier version of this story reported a lower number of new infections.