Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported a new coronavirus-related death and new infections across the state in Oahu, with a total of 124 deaths and 17,166 cases reported since the onset of the epidemic.
No immediate details were available on the latest deaths.
The Hawaii Department of Health has yet to officially count about a dozen recent deaths at the Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home in Hilo, the site of a major COVID-19 cluster. Hilo Medical Center reports that 26 of the 28 coronavirus-related deaths on the Big Island are residents of nursing homes. But the coronavirus has been tested by the state as the cause of death of 15 people from that island alone.
Hawaii government hospital administrators are managing a state-owned veterans care home from private Utah-based operator Avalon Health Care.
New cases of infection in Hawaii today include 91 on Oahu and seven on the island of Hawaii.
The state’s official death toll today includes 107 on Oahu, 15 on the island of Hawaii, and nine on Maui, while one was a Caii resident who died on the mainland.
The death toll in the U.S. today is about 205,000.
The total number of coronavirus cases reported by the county since the outbreak is 10,939 in Oahu, 700 in Hawaii County, 388 in Maui County, and 59 in KKE County. There are also 30 Hawaiian residents diagnosed outside the state.
To date, 1,829 infections are considered active cases across the state, including% of patients now classified as “free from loneliness” by health officials, or% of infected people. Infected people are counted in the category who have met the criteria for liberation from loneliness. Officials reported 29 new releases today.
On Saturday, health officials significantly reduced the number of active infections, saying the health department was focusing on redesigning contact tracing processes, including increasing the effectiveness of the Kovid-1 case investigation and making various changes to the device system. Be more automated, and to improve the timeliness of data entry and validation. Isolation release data completeness has been the focus of recent efforts, resulting in a significant increase in the number of reported COVID-19 cases currently released from 5,397 to 10126 isolation cases. “
By county, Honolulu has seen 9,160 patients released from isolation, Hawaii County has seen 584 releases, Maui has released 355 patients. Cowin has two active infections.
Of the confirmed air cases, 816 need to be hospitalized, with 14 new hospital admissions – 11 on Ohu and 3 on Maui – reported today, health officials said.
The statewide count includes two hospitalized Hawaiian residents who were diagnosed and treated outside the state. Of the 800 hospitals in the state, 707 are on Oahu, 52 on Maui, 40 on the island of Hawaii, and one on Kauai.
Lt. Gov. Josh Green said today that Hawaii hospitals have 1 CO8 Covid-19 patient, which he said is the lowest number of coronavirus hospital admissions in the state in the last two months. There are 48 Covid-19 patients in intensive care units and 31 on ventilators in air hospitals, state officials said Saturday.
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Officials counted 1,908 new tests in today’s telly, with today’s 98 positive results representing 5.1% of the total test, according to Green.
Of the 293,562 coronavirus tests performed by state and clinical laboratories in Hawaii since the outbreak began, a total of 4.1% have been positive.
Oahu’s seven-day average case count must be below 100 and its positive rate must be below 5% for 14 consecutive days to move to the next level of economic opening. To date, Honolulu has four straight days under both benchmarks.
