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BRUCE ASATO / BASATO@STARADVERTISER.COM
Shoppers line up while keeping their social distance at the Forever 21 store Friday at Pearlridge Center. Residents have started returning to malls and beaches as county and state leaders ease some restrictions due to Hawaii’s low coronavirus infection rate.
Hawaii’s tally of coronavirus cases has risen by one to a total of 640, the state Department of Health announced today.
The one new case is on the Big Island.
Of all the confirmed Hawaii cases since the start of the outbreak, 82 have required hospitalizations, with no new hospitalizations reported today, health officials said.
As of today, 50 infections in Hawaii are active cases with a total of 573 patients now classified by health officials as “released from isolation” since the start of the outbreak. One new release case (on Oahu) was reported today. The category counts those infected people who have met the criteria for being released from isolation.
More than 90% of the people who have been infected in Hawaii are now classified as released from isolation.
The state’s coronavirus death toll remains unchanged at 17. Eleven of the deaths have been on Oahu and six on Maui.
Today’s statewide coronavirus cases total includes 415 on Oahu, 117 in Maui County, 77 on Hawaii island, and 21 in Kauai County, according to health officials. The total also includes 10 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside of the state.
By county, Honolulu has seen 382 patients released from isolation (or 92%), and Maui has had 96 cases (79%) released. Kauai has no known active confirmed coronavirus cases, while the Big Island has two active cases.
One hospitalization in the statewide count is a Hawaii resident who was diagnosed and treated outside the state, officials said. Of the 81 hospitalizations in the state, 57 have been on Oahu, 22 on Maui, and one each on the Big Island and Kauai.
Of the 40,104 coronavirus tests conducted so far by state and clinical laboratories in Hawaii, just 1.6% have been positive. Health officials counted 369 new test results in today’s statewide tally.
On Thursday, state health officials announced for the second time in a week that Hawaii had no new confirmed cases of COVID-19. The Health Department’s daily count of new infections in Hawaii has not been in double digits since April 18 when officials reported 22 new cases. The daily count also has never been over four new cases this month.
Hawaii’s success in flattening the infection-rate curve — and lowest-in-the-nation coronavirus mortality rate — has led state and county governments to start a gradual easing of emergency orders and restrictions designed to slow the spread of the disease.
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