Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported 108 new coronavirus infections, bringing the state’s total to 26,393 cases since the pandemic began.
State health officials have not reported any new deaths from the coronavirus today as the statewide death toll remains at 416.
The state’s official coronavirus death toll includes 333 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 more than 461,000 today.
The current new statewide cases of infection reported by the health department include 86 on Oahu, 16 on Maui, one case each on the Big Island, Kauai and Lanai, and three residents diagnosed outside of Hawaii, officials said. As a result of updated information, one Oahu case has been removed from the counts.
The statistics released today reflect the new contamination cases reported to the department on Thursday.
The total number of coronavirus cases per island since the outbreak began is 21,289 on Oahu, 2,188 in Hawaii County, 1,849 on Maui, 179 on Kauai, 109 on Lanai and 25 on Molokai. There are also 754 Hawaii residents diagnosed out of state.
Health officials also said today that of the total number of infections in the state, 1,318 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 is down by 24 today.
Per island, Oahu has 964 active cases, Maui has 278, the Big Island has 71, Kauai has three, and Lanai has three, according to the state’s latest numbers. Molokai has no active COVID cases.
Health officials counted 9,206 new COVID-19 test results in today’s census, for a statewide positivity rate of 1.17%. The state’s average positivity rate over 7 days is 1.8%, according to the Hawaii COVID-19 Data dashboard.
Of all confirmed cases of infection in Hawaii, 1,745 require hospitalizations, with 13 new hospitalizations 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 1,741 hospital admissions in the state, 1,526 have been on Oahu, 104 on Maui, 98 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 64 patients with the virus as of Friday morning in hospitals in Hawaii, 17 of them in intensive care units and 13 on ventilators.
Health officials said that on Jan. 31, 157,018 vaccines had been administered out of the 227,600 received by the state. The vaccinations administered by county are Honolulu: 105,500; Maui, 14,391; Hawaii, 15,035 and Kauai, 11,755. 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 is conducting 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 61 and the seven-day average positivity rate is 2.4%.
Blangiardi has said he hoped to stay on Tier 2, a four-tiered framework established by former Mayor Kirk Caldwell. Under Tier 3, social gatherings of up to 10 would be allowed, against 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.