Hawaii health officials today reported 123 new infections, bringing the state’s total since the pandemic began to 25,275 cases.
The official number of coronavirus-related deaths remains at 342, with no new deaths reported today.
The official number of coronavirus-related deaths in the state includes 262 deaths on Oahu, 45 on the island of Hawaii, 21 on Maui, one on Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died on the mainland.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the USA was more than 420,000 today.
New cases of infection across the state reported by the Department of Health include 91 on Oahu, 21 on Maui, six on Ilha Grande and five residents diagnosed outside Hawaii, officials said. As a result of the updated information, one case of Oahu was recategorized for Kauai and two cases of Oahu were removed from the counts.
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 20,524 in Oahu, 2,128 in Hawaii County, 1,626 in Maui, 178 in Kauai, 106 in Lanai and 25 in Molokai. There are also 688 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials also said today that of the state’s total infection count, 1,656 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 44 today.
By island, Oahu has 1,228 active cases, Maui has 316, Ilha Grande has 102, Kauai has 10, according to the state’s latest count. Lanai and Molokai have no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 3,442 new results from the COVID-19 test in today’s count, for a positivity rate of 3.57% across the state. The state’s average 7-day positivity rate is 2.4%, according to the Hawaii COVID-19 data panel.
According to the latest information from the Department of Hawaii’s COVID-19 data panel, a total of 96 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals on Friday morning, with 21 in intensive care units and 18 on ventilators.
Health officials said that as of Sunday (January 18), 70,095 vaccines had been administered out of 154,150 received by the state. County vaccinations are Honolulu, 39,886; Maui, 10,195; Hawaii, 7,011; and Kauai, 5,328. The total also included 7,675 administered by the federal pharmacy program. State officials release updated vaccination numbers every Wednesday.
This breaking news will be updated as more information becomes available.