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Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported three new coronavirus-related deaths and 163 new confirmed and probable infections across the state, bringing the state’s total since the pandemic started to 888 deaths and 83,351 cases.
No further information was initially available on the most recent deaths.
The state’s official coronavirus-related death toll includes 668 deaths on Oahu, 112 on the island of Hawaii, 93 in Maui, 67 in Kauai, one in Molokai and five Hawaiian residents who died outside of the state.
The U.S. coronavirus-related death toll is over 735,000 today and the nationwide number of infections is more than 45.4 million.
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Today’s new confirmed and probable infection count by island includes 93 new cases in Oahu, 40 in Hawaii, eight in Maui, 12 in Kauai, and 10 Hawaiian residents diagnosed outside of the state.
State health officials have added likely infections to the total number of cases. Likely infections include people who have never received a confirmatory test, but who are believed to have had the virus based on their known exposure and symptoms, or a positive antigen test.
The total number of confirmed and probable coronavirus cases by island since the outbreak began is 57,470 in Oahu, 10,886 in Hawaii, 9,450 in Maui, 2,535 in Kauai, 239 in Molokai and 142 in Lanai. There are also 2,629 Hawaiian residents diagnosed outside of the state.
Health officials also said today that of the total number of infections in the state, 1,686 cases were considered active. Officials say they consider the infections reported in the past 14 days to be a “proxy number for active cases.” The state’s total number of active cases is down by 33 today.
By island, Oahu has 993 active cases, Big Island has 397, Maui has 177, Kauai has 112, Lanai has two, and Molokai has five.
According to health officials, 70.7% of the state’s population was fully vaccinated as of Friday.
Of all confirmed cases of infection in Hawaii, 4,648 had to be hospitalized, with six new hospitalizations reported today.
24 hospitalizations in the total statewide number were Hawaii residents diagnosed and treated outside of the state. Of the 4,624 hospital admissions within the state, 3,641 were on Oahu, 526 on Maui, 380 on the Big Island, 67 on Kauai, five on Lanai, and five on Molokai.
According to the latest information from the department’s Hawaii COVID-19 Data Dashboard, a total of 72 patients with the virus were in hospitals in Hawaii as of Friday, including 18 in intensive care units and 12 on ventilators.
The nationwide average positivity rate is 2.1%. The average seven-day case number for Oahu is 72 and the average positivity rate over seven days is 1.9%, state health officials said today.
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