Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported 35 new coronavirus infections, bringing the state’s total since the pandemic began to 26,889 cases.
No new coronavirus-related deaths were reported today, as the statewide death toll remains 426. The state’s official coronavirus-related deaths include 340 deaths on Oahu, 53 on the island of Hawaii, 29 on Maui, one in Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died outside the state.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the U.S. is over 486,000 today and the infection count across the country is over 27.6 million.
New cases of infection across the state reported by the Department of Health include 25 in Oahu, seven in Maui, one in Molokai and two residents diagnosed outside Hawaii, officials said.
The statistics released today reflect the new cases of infection reported to the department on Saturday.
The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the outbreak started is 21,620 in Oahu, 2,216 in Hawaii County, 1,947 in Maui, 179 in Kauai, 108 in Lanai and 27 in Molokai. There are also 792 residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed outside the state. As a result of updated information, two cases of Oahu have been dropped from official state counts, officials said today.
Health officials also said today that of the state’s total infection count, 895 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 decreased by 54 today.
By island, Oahu has 647 active cases, Maui has 198, Ilha Grande has 45, Molokai and Lanai have two each and Kauai has one, according to the state’s latest count.
Health officials counted 4,273 new results from the COVID-19 test in today’s count, for a positivity rate of 0.8% across the state. The state’s 7-day average positivity rate is 1%, according to Hawaii’s COVID-19 data panel.
Of all confirmed cases of infection in Hawaii, 1,800 required hospitalizations, with four new hospitalizations – three in Oahu and one in Maui – 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 1,796 hospitalizations in the state, 1,570 occurred in Oahu, 113 in Maui, 100 in Ilha Grande, seven in Kauai, five in Lanai and one in Molokai.
Health officials said that as of February 7, 218,997 vaccines had been administered out of the 288,050 received by the state. Of the vaccines administered, 201,553 were given to the general public and 17,444 were distributed through the federal pharmacy program, officials said. 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 each 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 Oahu case count is 38 and the seven-day average positivity rate is 1.2%, according to Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi. The mayor announced on Friday that Oahu will remain at Level 2 until March 15, unless county metrics fall below levels that would allow a move to another level.
This breaking news will be updated as more information becomes available.