Hawaii health officials today reported 120 new coronavirus infections across the state, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 20,769 cases.
The official number of deaths related to the state’s coronavirus remains at 285, with no new deaths reported today.
The official number of coronavirus-related deaths from the state Department of Health includes 221 deaths on Oahu, 44 on the island of Hawaii, 17 on Maui, one on Kauai and two Hawaii residents who died on the mainland. The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said on Thursday that the number of COVID-19 deaths on Ilha Grande remains at 50, but health officials have not yet confirmed coronavirus as a factor in six of those deaths on the island. Hawaii.
The number of coronavirus deaths in the U.S. has exceeded 329,000 today, while coronavirus cases across the country have reached 18.7 million.
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New cases of infection across the state reported by the Department of Health include 95 on Oahu, 17 on Maui and eight on Ilha Grande, 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 Wednesday.
The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the outbreak started is 17,450 in Oahu, 1,856 in Hawaii County, 855 in Maui, 139 in Kauai, 106 in Lanai and 22 in Molokai. There are also 341 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside the state.
Hawaii health officials said that of the state’s total infection count, 1,773 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 has increased by 40 today.
By island, Oahu has 1,398 active cases, Maui has 195, Ilha Grande has 167 and Kauai has 13, according to the latest count. Molokai and Lanai no longer have active COVID cases.
Of all confirmed Hawaii infection cases, 1,442 required hospitalizations, with six hospitalizations reported today by state health officials.
Three hospitalizations in the state count are Hawaii residents who have been diagnosed and treated outside the state. Of the 1,439 hospitalizations in the state, 1,268 occurred on Oahu, 86 on Ilha Grande, 72 on Maui, seven on Kauai, five on Lanai and one on Molokai.
According to the latest information from the Department of Hawaii’s COVID-19 data panel, a total of 73 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals at 8:30 am on Thursday, 13 in intensive care units and 12 in ventilators.
Oahu moved to less restrictive Tier 2 from Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s four-tier economic recovery plan on October 22. The mayor’s office says that 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 today is 99 and the positivity rate is 4.5%, according to Caldwell.
On Monday, Caldwell said that new infections among prisoners at the Halawa Correctional Facility will no longer be counted in his metrics for the recovery plan. A recent prison grouping had raised Honolulu’s infection count and threatened to send Oahu back to Level 1, the most restrictive of the mayor’s four-tier system.