Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported two new coronavirus-related deaths and 107 additional infections, bringing the state’s total since the beginning of the pandemic to 416 deaths and 26,187 cases.
No other information was immediately available on the latest deaths.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the United States was more than 454,000 today.
New cases of infection across the state reported by the Department of Health include 79 on Oahu, 16 on Maui, seven on Ilha Grande and five residents diagnosed outside Hawaii, officials said. As a result of the updated information, an Oahu case was recategorized for the island of Hawaii and a Kauai case was removed from the counts.
The statistics released today reflect the new cases of infection reported to the department on Tuesday.
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The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the outbreak started is 21,141 in Oahu, 2,184 in Hawaii County, 1,809 in Maui, 178 in Kauai, 107 in Lanai and 25 in Molokai. There are also 743 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials also said today that of the state’s total infection count, 1,374 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 nine today.
By island, Oahu has 1,374 active cases, Maui has 277, Ilha Grande has 77, Kauai has three and Lanai has one, according to the state’s latest count. Molokai has no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 4,120 new results from the COVID-19 test in today’s count, for a positivity rate of 2.6% statewide. The state’s 7-day average positivity rate is 1.9%, according to Hawaii’s COVID-19 data panel.
Of all confirmed Hawaii infection cases, 1,724 required hospitalizations, with 11 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 1,720 hospitalizations in the state, 1,508 occurred in Oahu, 101 in Maui, 98 in Ilha Grande, seven in Kauai, five in Lanai and one in Molokai.
According to the latest information from the Department of Hawaii’s COVID-19 data panel, a total of 55 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals on Wednesday morning, 21 in intensive care units and 16 in ventilators.
Health officials said that as of Sunday, 157,018 vaccines had been administered out of the 227,600 received by the state. Vaccinations 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 vaccination numbers checked 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 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 case count for Oahu is 62 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 at 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.