Hawaii State Health Department officials today reported two new coronavirus-related deaths and 200 infections, bringing the state’s total since the beginning of the pandemic to 309 deaths and 23,341 cases.
The deaths included a person on Oahu and a resident of Hawaii diagnosed outside the state. No other details about the deaths were immediately available.
The official number of coronavirus-related deaths in the state includes 243 deaths on Oahu, 45 on the island of Hawaii, 18 on Maui, one on Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died on the mainland. The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said today that the number of COVID-19 deaths on Ilha Grande remains at 51, but state officials have not verified coronavirus as a factor in six of those deaths.
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New cases of infection across the state reported by the Department of Health include 128 on Oahu, 30 on Maui, 12 on Ilha Grande, nine on Kauai and 21 state residents diagnosed outside Hawaii, officials said. As a result of the updated information, one case of Oahu and one from outside the state were dropped from the counts.
The statistics released today reflect the new cases of infection reported to the department on Friday.
The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the outbreak started is 19,198 in Oahu, 2,006 in Hawaii County, 1,277 in Maui, 166 in Kauai, 106 in Lanai and 25 in Molokai. There are also 563 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside the state.
Hawaii health officials said today that of the state’s total infection count, 2,152 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 84 today.
By island, Oahu has 1,598 active cases, Maui has 384, Ilha Grande has 144 and Kauai has 23 and Molokai has three, according to the state’s latest count. Lanai has no active COVID cases.
Of all confirmed Hawaii infection cases, 1,558 required hospitalizations, with 15 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 1,554 hospitalizations in the state, 1,370 occurred in Oahu, 92 in Ilha Grande, 79 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 129 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals at 8:30 am on Friday, with 24 in intensive care units and 20 on 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 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 Oahu case count is 129 and the seven-day average positivity rate is 4.1%, according to Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi, who said on Thursday that Oahu will remain in Level 2.