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Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported 47 new coronavirus infections, bringing the state’s total since the pandemic began to 27,270 cases.
State health officials did not report additional deaths today, as the number of coronavirus-related deaths across the state remains at 431.
The official number of coronavirus-related deaths in the state includes 344 deaths on Oahu, 53 on the island of Hawaii, 30 on Maui, one on Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died outside the state.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the United States today exceeds 501,000 and the infection count across the country is over 28.2 million.
New cases of infection across the state reported by the Department of Health include 27 on Oahu, 17 on Maui and three residents diagnosed outside Hawaii, officials said.
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 21,829 in Oahu, 2,234 in Hawaii County, 2,071 in Maui, 181 in Kauai, 108 in Lanai and 27 in Molokai. There are also 820 residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed outside the state.
Health officials also said today that of the state’s total infection count, 693 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 increased by 10 today.
By island, Oahu has 457 active cases, Maui has 200, Ilha Grande has 33, Molokai has two and Kauai has two, according to the state’s latest count. Lanai has no active cases.
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Health officials counted 784 new COVID-19 test results in today’s count, for a statewide 6% positivity rate. The state’s 7-day average positivity rate is 1.1%, according to the Hawaii COVID-19 data panel.
Of all confirmed Hawaii infection cases, 1,840 required hospitalizations, with six new hospitalizations reported today on Oahu by state health officials.
Five hospitalizations on the count across the state are Hawaii residents who have been diagnosed and treated outside the state. Of the 1,835 hospitalizations in the state, 1,601 occurred in Oahu, 119 in Maui, 102 in Ilha Grande, seven in Kauai, five in Lanai and one in Molokai.
According to the latest information from the department’s COVID-19 data panel in Hawaii, a total of 37 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals on Monday morning, seven in intensive care units and six in ventilators.
According to the weekly summary of the Hawaii COVID-19 vaccine verified by the state, 306,275 vaccines were administered out of the 330,900 received by the state on February 22. About 13.6% of the general population received at least one dose of the vaccine, while about 59% of people aged 75 and over also received a dose.
Of the vaccines administered, 284,709 were given to the general public and 21,566 were distributed through the federal pharmacy program, officials said. State officials release updated and verified vaccination numbers every Wednesday.
Oahu moved to the less restrictive level 2 of Honolulu’s four-level economic recovery plan on October 22. To assess whether Honolulu will be moved to a different level, the city conducts a “weekly assessment” of two main COVID-19 numbers each 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.