Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported three new coronavirus-related deaths and 82 additional infections, bringing the state’s total to 410 deaths and 25,853 cases since the start of the pandemic.
Two of the last deaths were on Oahu and the third was on Maui. No further details were immediately released about the fatalities.
The state’s official coronavirus-related death toll includes 327 deaths on Oahu, 53 on the island of Hawaii, 26 on Maui, one on Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died outside the state.
The death toll related to the coronavirus in the US was nearly 441,000 today.
The new statewide contamination cases reported by the health department include 59 on Oahu, 11 on the Big Island, eight on Maui and four residents diagnosed outside of Hawaii, officials said.
The statistics released today reflect the new contamination cases reported to the department on Friday.
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The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the outbreak began is 20,923 in Oahu, 2,162 in Hawaii County, 1,734 in Maui, 178 in Kauai, 107 in Lanai and 25 in Molokai. There are also 724 Hawaii residents diagnosed out of state. As a result of updated information, a case from Maui was re-categorized to the island of Hawaii, state officials said today.
Health officials also said today that of the total number of infections in the state, 1,412 cases were considered active. Officials say they consider infections reported in the past 14 days as a “ proxy number for active cases. ” The number of active cases in the state has decreased by 44 today.
Per island, Oahu has 1,040 active cases, Maui has 276, the Big Island has 90, Kauai has five, and Lanai has one, according to the state’s latest numbers. Molokai has no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 4,569 new COVID-19 test results in today’s census, for a statewide positivity rate of 1.7%. The state’s average positivity rate over 7 days is 2.2%, according to the Hawaii COVID-19 Data dashboard.
Of all confirmed cases of infection in Hawaii, 1,696 hospitalizations were required, with two new hospitalizations on Oahu reported today by state health officials.
Four hospital admissions in the state are Hawaii residents who have been diagnosed and treated out of state. Of the 1,692 hospital admissions in the state, 1,484 have been on Oahu, 99 on Maui, 96 on the Big Island, seven on Kauai, five on Lanai, and one on Molokai.
According to the latest information from the department’s Hawaii COVID-19 Data dashboard, there were a total of 75 patients with the virus as of Friday morning in hospitals in Hawaii, with 20 in intensive care units and 15 on ventilators.
Health officials said that on Jan. 24, 106,654 vaccines were administered out of the 170,975 the state received. Vaccinations administered by county are Honolulu, 68,521; Maui, 11,060; Hawaii, 10459 and Kauai, 8.799. The total also included several thousand managed under the federal pharmacy program. State officials release the verified updated vaccination numbers every Wednesday.
Oahu transitioned to the less restrictive Tier 2 of Honolulu’s four-tier economic recovery plan on Oct. 22. To gauge whether Honolulu will move to another level, the city conducts a ‘weekly review’ of two key COVID-19 numbers every Wednesday. . To move from Level 2 to Level 3, the 7-day mean of new cases on two consecutive Wednesdays must be less than 50. Also, the seven-day mean positivity rate on those two Wednesdays must be less than 2.5%.
According to Mayor Rick Blangiardi, mayor of Honolulu, the seven-day average number of cases for Oahu is 70 and the seven-day average positivity rate is 2.6%.
Blangiardi has said he hoped to stay at Tier 2, a four-tier framework established by former Mayor Kirk Caldwell. Under Tier 3, social gatherings of up to 10 would be allowed, an increase of 5 under Tier 2, and retail businesses would be able to operate at full capacity, instead of 50% capacity under Tier 2.
This breaking news story will be updated as more information becomes available.