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Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported eight new coronavirus-related deaths and 569 new confirmed and probable infections across the state, bringing the state’s total since the pandemic started to 702 deaths and 75,006 cases.
Six of the deaths occurred on Oahu, including a man in his twenties, a man in his thirties, two men in their sixties, and a man and a woman in their eighties. The other fatalities were a Maui man in his 50s and a Hawaiian island man in his 60s.
The state’s official coronavirus-related death toll includes 532 deaths in Oahu, 81 in Maui, 75 in Hawaii, eight in Kauai, one in Molokai, and five Hawaiian residents who died outside of the state.
The U.S. coronavirus-related death toll is over 672,000 today and the nationwide number of infections is more than 42 million.
Today’s new confirmed and probable infection count by island includes 367 new cases in Oahu, 50 in Maui, 79 in Hawaii, 46 in Kauai, six in Molokai, two in Lanai, and 19 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 53,349 in Oahu, 8,676 in Maui, 9,375 in Hawaii County, 1,952 in Kauai, 139 in Lanai and 196 in Molokai. There are also 2,319 Hawaiian residents diagnosed outside of the state.
Health officials also said today that of the total number of infections in the state, 7,982 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 303 today.
By Island, Oahu has 5,463 active cases, Big Island has 1,219, Maui has 761, Kauai has 502, Lanai has six, and Molokai has 31.
Of all confirmed cases of infection in Hawaii, 4,001 had to be hospitalized, with 20 new hospital admissions reported today.
Nineteen hospitalizations in the total statewide are residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed and treated outside of the state. Of the 3,982 hospital admissions in the state, 3,220 were in Oahu, 452 in Maui, 269 in the Big Island, 33 in Kauai, five on Lanai, and three on Molokai.
The average seven-day case number for Oahu is 367 and the average positivity rate for seven days is 7.1%, state health officials said today.
This breaking news will be updated as more information becomes available.
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