Hawaii health officials today reported four additional coronavirus-related deaths and 80 new infections statewide across Oahu, including 264 deaths and 18,741 cases since the onset of the epidemic.
No further details were immediately available on the recent deaths.
The state health department’s death toll is 203 on Oahu, 43 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 today that Big Island’s COVID-19 death toll was 49; State health officials have not tested coronavirus as a factor in six of those deaths.
U.S. More than 288,000 people have died from coronavirus today.
Today’s new infection cases in Hawaii include 45 on ahhu, 15 on Maui, 12 on Big Island, one on Kaui and seven Hawaii residents with out-of-state diagnoses, the health department said.
The figures released today reflect new cases reported to the department as of 11:59 a.m. Monday.
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Health officials calculated 3,852 COVID-19 new test results for a statewide positive rate of 1.9%.
The total number of coronavirus cases by island after the outbreak is 15,924 in Oahu, 1,664 in Hawaii County, 633 in Maui, 121 in Kauai, 106 in Lanai, and 22 in Molokai. 271 Hawaiian residents are also diagnosed outside the state.
Hawaii health officials said 1,179 cases were considered active in the state’s total infection count. 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 come down to 28 today.
By island, ah hu had 918 active cases, Maui 131, Big Island 106, Cain 19 and Molokai five.
Of the 17 confirmed new cases of airborne infections reported by state health officials, 1,346 need to be hospitalized.
The statewide count includes Hawaiians admitted to two hospitals who were diagnosed and treated outside the state. Of the 1,344 hospitals in the state, 1,183 are on Ohu, 80 on the Big Island, 68 on Maui, seven on Kai, five on Lanai and one on Molokai.
As of Tuesday afternoon, a total of 47 patients with the virus were in Hawaii hospitals, including 16 in the intensive care unit and 11 in the ventilator, according to the latest information from the department’s Hawaii COVID-19 data dashboard.
Ohio went on October 22 to Honolulu Mayor Kirk Cuddwell’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 a different level. To move from Tier 2 to Tier 3, the 7-day average of new cases on two consecutive Wednesdays should be below 50. Also, those two Wednesdays should be below the 7-day average positivity rate of 2.5%.
The seven-day average case count for Oahu today is 72 and the positivity rate was 2.2%, according to Caldwell.
This breaking news story will be updated as more information becomes available.
