Hawaii health officials today reported 120 new coronavirus infections across the state, up from 20,769 cases since the onset of the epidemic.
The state’s official coronavirus-related death toll is at 285 while no new deaths have been reported today.
The state health department’s coronavirus-related deaths include 221 on Oahu, 44 on the island of Hawaii, 17 on Maui, one on Kauai and two Hawaiian residents who have died on the mainland. The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said Thursday that the Big Island’s COVID-19 death toll is at 50, but health officials have not yet confirmed the coronavirus as the cause of the six deaths on the island of Hawaii.
U.S. The number of deaths from coronavirus today peaks at 329,000 as coronavirus cases rank 18.7 million nationwide.
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Today’s new statewide infection cases reported by the health department include 95 on Ah Hu, 1 eight on Maui, eight on Big Island and none on Kauai, officials said. As a result of the updated information, one Ohu case was removed from the calculations.
Figures released today show new cases of infection reported in the department on Wednesday.
Separately, the Kaui District Health Office today registered two new cases involving male residents. One case is travel related and the other case is community-acquired. All active cases are in isolation, and one case is hospitalized on Oahu. Close contacts are being identified, directed to quarantine, and offered testing.
The total number of coronavirus cases by island after the outbreak is 17,450 in Oahu, 1,856 in Hawaii County, 855 in Maui, 139 in Kauai, 106 in Lanai and 22 in Molokai. The diagnosis is also made by 341 Hawaiian residents outside the state.
Of the state’s total infection counts, 1,773 cases are considered active, Hawaii health officials said. Health officials say they consider the infection reported in the last 14 days to be a “proxy number for an active case.” The number of active cases in the state has increased to 40 today.
According to the island, there are 1,398 active cases in Oahu, 195 in Maui, 167 in the Big Island, and 13 in Kauai, according to the latest figures. Molokai and Lanai no longer have active covid cases.
Of all confirmed cases of airborne infections, 1,442 need to be hospitalized, with six hospital admissions reported by state health officials today.
The statewide count includes Hawaiians admitted to three hospitals who were diagnosed and treated outside the state. 144343 in the state. There are as many hospitals as .2O, on Ohu, on Island Island Big Island, Mau૨, seven on Maui, five on Lanai, and one in Molokai.
As of 8:30 a.m. Thursday, a total of 73 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals, including 13 on intensive care units and 12 on ventilators, according to the department’s Hawaii COVID-19 data dashboard.
Ohio on Oct. 22 went to Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s less-restricted Tier 2 of the four-tier economic recovery plan. The mayor’s office fee says the city takes a “weekly assessment” of the two key COVID-19 numbers every Wednesday to see if Honolulu will go to different levels. To move from Tier 2 to Tier 3, the 7-day average of new cases on two consecutive Wednesdays should be below 50. Also, both of them should be below the 7-day average positivity rate of 2.5% on Wednesday.
The seven-day average case count for Oldu today is 99 and the positivity rate is 4.5%, according to Caldwell.
On Monday, Caldwell said new infections in inmates at the hawala correctional facility would no longer be counted in the metrics for his recovery plan. A recent cluster in the prison accelerated the Honolulu infection count and threatened to send Oahu, the most restrictive of the mayor’s four-tier system, back to Tier 1.
