Hawaii health officials today reported three new coronavirus-related deaths on Oahu and 119 new infections, bringing the state’s total since the pandemic began to 328 deaths and 24,739 cases.
No further details were available on the latest coronavirus-related deaths.
The official number of coronavirus-related deaths in the state includes 258 deaths on Oahu, 45 on the island of Hawaii, 21 on Maui, one on Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died on the mainland. The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said 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. Hawaii County has reported no coronavirus-related deaths in the past three weeks.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the United States was more than 408,000 today.
New cases of infection across the state reported by the Department of Health include 66 on Oahu, 30 on Maui, 16 on Ilha Grande and seven residents diagnosed outside Hawaii, officials said.
The statistics released today reflect the new cases of infection reported to the department on Tuesday.
The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the outbreak started is 20,133 in Oahu, 2,108 in Hawaii County, 1,531 in Maui, 176 in Kauai, 106 in Lanai and 25 in Molokai. There are also 660 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials also said today that of the state’s total infection count, 1,953 cases were considered active. The authorities 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 174 today.
By island, Oahu has 1,427 active cases, Maui has 353, Ilha Grande has 144, Kauai has 22 and Molokai has two, according to the state’s latest count. Lanai has no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 4,503 new results from the COVID-19 test in today’s count, for a positivity rate of 2.5% across the state. The state’s average 7-day positivity rate is also 2.5%, according to Hawaii’s COVID-19 data panel.
Of all confirmed cases of infection in Hawaii, 1,642 required hospitalization, with 22 new hospitalizations – 19 in Oahu and three in Maui – 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 1,638 hospitalizations in the state, 1,437 occurred in Oahu, 95 in Maui, 93 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 103 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals on Wednesday morning, 21 in intensive care units and 15 in ventilators.
Health officials said that by Sunday, 70,095 vaccines had been administered out of 154,150 received by the state. County vaccinations are Honolulu, 39,886; Maui, 10,195; Hawaii, 7,011; and Kauai, 5,328. The total also included 7,675 administered in the federal pharmacy program. State officials release updated vaccination numbers every Wednesday.
This breaking news will be updated as more information becomes available.