Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported 71 new coronavirus infections, bringing the state’s total since the pandemic began to 25,339 cases.
There were no new deaths reported today, but on Monday the Department of Health added 60 additional coronavirus-related deaths to the state count which now stands at 401. However, Department of Health officials revised the total additional deaths to 59 after one “Given the cleaning process. “
Health officials discovered additional deaths after a review of the department’s Electronic Death Record System, Health Director Dr. Libby Char said in a press release. The deaths occurred between August and December. Forty-nine deaths occurred on Oahu, seven on the island of Hawaii and three on Maui, according to a spokesman for Hawaii’s Joint Information Center COVID-19.
The official number of coronavirus-related deaths in the state includes 320 deaths on Oahu, 53 on the island of Hawaii, 24 on Maui, one on Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died on the mainland.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the United States was more than 423,000 today.
New cases of infection across the state reported by the Department of Health include 61 on Oahu, eight on Maui, one on Ilha Grande and a resident diagnosed outside Hawaii, officials said. As a result of the updated information, seven cases of Oahu were dropped from the counts.
The statistics released today reflect the new cases of infection reported to the department on Sunday.
The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the outbreak started is 20,578 in Oahu, 2,129 in Hawaii County, 1,634 in Maui, 178 in Kauai, 106 in Lanai and 25 in Molokai. There are also 689 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials also said today that of the state’s total infection count, 1,612 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 decreasedaround 44 today.
By island, Oahu has 1,200 active cases, Maui has 303, Ilha Grande has 99, Kauai has 10, according to the state’s latest count. Lanai and Molokai have no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 2,346 new results from the COVID-19 test in today’s count, for a positivity rate of 3.03% statewide. The state’s average 7-day positivity rate is 2.5%, according to Hawaii’s COVID-19 data panel.
Of all confirmed Hawaii infection cases, 1,669 required hospitalizations, with five 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 1,665 hospitalizations in the state, 1,460 occurred in Oahu, 98 in Maui, 94 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 89 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals on Monday morning, 21 in intensive care units and 17 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.