Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported three new coronavirus-related deaths and 103 additional infections, bringing the state’s total since the beginning of the pandemic to 404 deaths and 25,442 cases.
The death toll in the state now includes 59 confirmed, but not previously reported, deaths related to COVID-19, which were officially added to Hawaii’s virus death toll on Tuesday.
The three new deaths reported today include two on Oahu and one on Maui. No other details were immediately released.
The official number of coronavirus-related deaths in the state includes 322 deaths on Oahu, 53 on the island of Hawaii, 25 on Maui, one on Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died on the mainland.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the United States was more than 427,000 today.
New cases of infection across the state reported by the Department of Health include 64 on Oahu, 27 on Maui, three on Ilha Grande and nine residents diagnosed outside Hawaii, officials said.
The statistics released today reflect the new cases of infection reported to the department on Monday.
The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the outbreak began is 20,642 in Oahu, 2,132 in Hawaii County, 1,661 in Maui, 178 in Kauai, 106 in Lanai and 25 in Molokai. There are also 698 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials also said today that of the state’s total infection count, 1,613 cases were considered active. Officials say they consider infections reported in the past 14 days to be a “proxy number for active cases”. The number of active cases in the state has increased by one today.
By island, Oahu has 1,191 active cases, Maui has 319, Ilha Grande has 95, Kauai has eight, according to the state’s latest count. Lanai and Molokai have no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 4,500 new results from the COVID-19 test in today’s count, for a positivity rate of 2.1% statewide. The state’s average 7-day positivity rate is 2.5%, according to Hawaii’s COVID-19 data panel.
Of all confirmed Hawaii infection cases, 1,673 required hospitalizations, with four new hospitalizations in Oahu reported today by state health officials.
Four hospitalizations in the state count are Hawaii residents who have been diagnosed and treated outside the state. Of the 1,669 hospitalizations in the state, 1,464 occurred in Oahu, 98 in Maui, 94 in Ilha Grande, seven in Kauai, five in Lanai and one in Molokai.
According to the latest information from the Department of Hawaii’s COVID-19 data panel, a total of 82 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals on Tuesday morning, 21 in intensive care units and 18 in ventilators.
Health officials said that as of Sunday, 106,654 vaccines had been administered out of the 170,975 received by the state. Vaccinations administered by county are Honolulu, 68,521; Maui, 11,060; Hawaii, 10,459 and Kauai, 8,799. The total also included several thousand administered by the federal pharmacy program. State officials release updated and verified vaccination numbers every Wednesday.
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Oahu moved to the less restrictive Tier 2 of Honolulu’s four-tier economic recovery plan on October 22. To assess whether Honolulu will move to a different level, the city does a “weekly assessment” of two main COVID-19 numbers every Wednesday. To move to Level 3 from Level 2, the 7-day average of new cases must be less than 50 on two consecutive Wednesdays. In addition, the average 7-day positivity rate should be less than 2.5% on those two Wednesdays.
The average seven-day case count for Oahu is 81 and the average seven-day positivity rate is 3.0%, according to Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi.
This breaking news will be updated as more information becomes available.