Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported 108 new coronavirus infections, bringing the state’s total since the pandemic began to 26,393 cases.
State health officials did not report any new coronavirus-related deaths today, as the death toll across the state remains at 416.
The official number of coronavirus-related deaths in the state includes 333 deaths on Oahu, 53 on the island of Hawaii, 26 on Maui, one on Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died outside the state.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the United States was more than 461,000 today.
New cases of infection across the state reported by the Department of Health include 86 on Oahu, 16 on Maui, one case each on Ilha Grande, Kauai and Lanai and three residents diagnosed outside Hawaii, officials said. As a result of the updated information, an Oahu case 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 21,289 in Oahu, 2,188 in Hawaii County, 1,849 in Maui, 179 in Kauai, 109 in Lanai and 25 in Molokai. There are also 754 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials also said today that of the state’s total infection count, 1,318 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 24 today.
By island, Oahu has 964 active cases, Maui has 278, Ilha Grande has 71, Kauai has three and Lanai has three, according to the state’s latest count. Molokai has no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 9,206 new results from the COVID-19 test in today’s count, for a positivity rate of 1.17% across the state. The state’s average 7-day positivity rate is 1.8%, according to Hawaii’s COVID-19 data panel.
Of all confirmed Hawaii infection cases, 1,745 required hospitalizations, with 13 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 1,741 hospitalizations in the state, 1,526 occurred in Oahu, 104 in Maui, 98 in Ilha Grande, seven in Kauai, five in Lanai and one in Molokai.
According to the latest information from the department’s COVID-19 data panel in Hawaii, a total of 64 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals on Friday morning, 17 in intensive care units and 13 in ventilators.
Health officials said that by January 31, 157,018 vaccines had been administered out of the 227,600 received by the state. Vaccines administered by county are Honolulu, 105,500; Maui, 14,391; Hawaii, 15,035 and Kauai, 11,755. The total also included several thousand administered by the federal pharmacy program. State officials release updated and verified vaccination numbers 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 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 61 and the average seven-day positivity rate is 2.4%, 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 on 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.