Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported 116 new coronavirus infections, bringing the state’s total since the pandemic began to 25,771 cases.
There have been no new deaths reported today, and the number of coronavirus-related deaths in the state remains at 407.
The official number of coronavirus-related deaths in the state includes 325 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 437,600 today.
New cases of infection across the state reported by the Department of Health include 82 on Oahu, 20 on Maui, eight on Ilha Grande and six residents diagnosed outside Hawaii, officials said. As a result of the updated information, a Kauai case was recategorized for Maui, and a case from the island of Hawaii was removed from the counts.
The statistics released today reflect the new cases of infection reported to the department on Thursday.
The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the outbreak started is 20,864 in Oahu, 2,151 in Hawaii County, 1,726 in Maui, 178 in Kauai, 107 in Lanai and 25 in Molokai. There are also 720 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials also said today that of the state’s total infection count, 1,456 cases were considered active. Officials say they regard infections reported in the past 14 days as a “proxy number for active cases”. The number of active cases in the state has decreased by 45 today.
By island, Oahu has 1,066 active cases, Maui has 297, Ilha Grande has 86, Kauai has six and Lanai has one, according to the state’s latest count. Molokai has no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 9,472 new results from the COVID-19 test in today’s count, for a positivity rate of 1.22% across the state. The state’s 7-day average positivity rate is 2.3%, according to Hawaii’s COVID-19 data panel.
Of all confirmed Hawaii infection cases, 1,694 required hospitalizations, with 11 new hospitalizations 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 1,690 hospitalizations in the state, 1,482 occurred in Oahu, 99 in Maui, 96 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 75 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals on Friday morning, 20 in intensive care units and 15 in ventilators.
Health officials said that as of January 24, 106,654 vaccines have been administered out of 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 vaccination numbers checked every Wednesday.
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 average 7 days 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 77 and the average seven-day positivity rate is 2.7%, according to Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi.
Blangiardi said he hopes to remain at Level 2, a four-level structure established by former Mayor Kirk Caldwell. Under Level 3, social gatherings of up to 10 would be allowed, 5 at Level 2, and retail companies would be able to operate at full capacity, instead of 50% of capacity at Level 2.
This breaking news will be updated as more information becomes available.