Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported two new coronavirus-related deaths in Oahu and 75 new coronavirus infections across the state, bringing the state’s total since the pandemic began to 418 deaths and 26,468 cases.
No other information was immediately available on the latest deaths.
The official number of coronavirus-related deaths in the state includes 335 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 463,000 today, and the total number of infections is approaching 27 million; both numbers are by far the highest in the world.
New cases of infection across the state reported by the Department of Health include 52 on Oahu, 14 on Maui, seven on Ilha Grande and two residents diagnosed outside Hawaii, officials said.
The statistics released today reflect the new cases of infection reported to the department on Friday.
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The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the outbreak started is 21,241 in Oahu, 2,195 in Hawaii County, 1,863 in Maui, 179 in Kauai, 109 in Lanai and 25 in Molokai. There are also 756 residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed outside the state. As a result of updated information, a case in Maui was reclassified to Oahu, health officials said today.
Health officials also said today that of the state’s total infection count, 1,247 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 71 today.
By island, Oahu has 911 active cases, Maui has 258, Ilha Grande has 72, Kauai and Lanai have three each, according to the state’s latest count. Molokai has no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 4,696 new results from the COVID-19 test in today’s count, for a positivity rate of 1.5% statewide. The state’s average 7-day positivity rate is 1.8%, according to Hawaii’s COVID-19 data panel.
The number of coronavirus tests administered in Hawaii since the beginning of the pandemic has exceeded 1 million in today’s count, totaling 1,002,019, according to the state’s COVID-19 panel.
Of all confirmed Hawaii infection cases, 1,749 required hospitalizations, with four new hospitalizations – three on Oahu and one on Ilha Grande – 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 1,745 hospitalizations in the state, 1,529 occurred on Oahu, 104 on Maui, 99 on Ilha Grande, seven on Kauai, five on Lanai and one on 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 60 and the average seven-day positivity rate is 2.4%, according to Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi.
This breaking news will be updated as more information becomes available.