Hawaii health officials today reported 114 new coronavirus infections, bringing the state’s total since the beginning of the pandemic to 23,627 cases.
No new deaths were recorded today, leaving the statewide death toll at 309.
The number of coronavirus deaths in the USA was over 379,000 today, with the total number of coronavirus cases across the country reaching 22.8 million.
New cases of infection across the state reported by the Department of Health include 83 on Oahu, 21 on Maui, four on Ilha Grande and six state residents diagnosed outside Hawaii, officials said.
The statistics released today reflect the new cases of infection reported to the department on Sunday.
The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the outbreak started is 19,389 in Oahu, 2,030 in Hawaii County, 1,331 in Maui, 167 in Kauai, 106 in Lanai and 25 in Molokai. There are also 579 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside the state.
Hawaii health officials said today that of the state’s total infection count, 2,305 cases were considered active. Health 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 increased 37 today.
By island, Oahu has 1,703 active cases, Maui has 420, Ilha Grande has 159 and Kauai has 23, according to the state’s latest count. Lanai has no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 2,252 new results from the COVID-19 test in today’s count, for a positivity rate of 2.6% statewide. The state’s average 7-day positivity rate is 3.3%, according to Hawaii’s COVID-19 data panel.
Of all confirmed Hawaii infection cases, 1,561 required hospitalizations, with a new hospitalization 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 1,557 hospitalizations in the state, 1,372 occurred in Oahu, 92 in Ilha Grande, 80 in Maui, seven in Kauai, five in Lanai and one in Molokai.
According to the latest information from the Hawaii department’s COVID-19 data panel, a total of 126 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals at 8:30 am on Monday, 25 in intensive care units and 21 in ventilators.
State health officials announced on Thursday that they had started posting the total number of vaccines administered across the state. On Saturday, the department said 25,470 individuals were vaccinated – including 17,991 in Honolulu County, 3,013 in Maui County, 2,526 in Hawaii County and 1,940 in Kauai County. Vaccination numbers are updated weekly.
Oahu moved to the less restrictive level 2 of Honolulu’s four-level economic recovery plan on October 22. To assess whether Honolulu will be moved to a different level, the city conducts 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 138 and the seven-day average positivity rate is 4.2%, according to Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi, who said on Thursday that Oahu will remain in the Level 2.
This breaking news will be updated as more information becomes available.