Hawaii records 83 additional coronavirus cases, bringing statewide total to 15,154
GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE@STARADVERTISER.COM
A Honolulu police officer is tested for COVID-19 by nurse practitioner and research nurse Cris Milne as part of a first-responder testing event at the newly opened testing lab at the John A. Burns School of Medicine on Oct. 15.
Hawaii health officials reported 83 new coronavirus infections statewide today, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 15,154 cases.
No additional deaths were reported today.
The Department of Health’s official state death toll remains 219, with 170 fatalities on Oahu, 31 on Hawaii island, 17 on Maui, and one Kauai resident who died on the mainland. The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency says that the Big Island’s COVID-19 death toll is now 40, however, state health officials now have yet to verify coronavirus as a factor in nine of those deaths.
The U.S. coronavirus death toll is nearly 231,000 today. The number of confirmed infections in the United States also topped 9 million Friday with 47 states report rising cases counts.
Today’s new infection cases in Hawaii include 53 on Oahu, 26 on the Big Island, one on Kauai, and three Hawaii residents diagnosed out of state.
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Today’s total coronavirus cases by island since the start of the outbreak are 13,186 on Oahu, 1,300 in Hawaii County, 408 on Maui, 99 on Lanai, 65 on Kauai, and 17 on Molokai. There are also 79 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside of the state.
As of today, 3,111 infections are considered active cases statewide, with a total of 11,824 patients now classified by health officials as “released from isolation,” or 78% of those infected, according to the state’s official count. The category counts those infected people who have met the criteria for being released from isolation. Officials reported 48 new releases today.
Health Department officials said they counted 3,408 tests in today’s infection case tally for a 2.4% statewide positivity rate.
Honolulu has seen 10,466 patients released from isolation, Hawaii County has had 903 releases, Maui has seen 363 patients released, and Lanai has seen 18 release cases. Kauai has five active infections, and Molokai has two, according to today’s Health Department breakdown.
Of all the confirmed Hawaii cases, 1,107 have required hospitalizations, with two new hospitalizations reported today — one each on Oahu and Kauai — by state health officials.
Two hospitalizations in the statewide count are Hawaii residents who were diagnosed and treated outside the state. Of the 1,105 hospitalizations within the state, 979 have been on Oahu, 65 on the Big Island, 57 on Maui, two on Kauai, and one each on Lanai and Molokai.
According to the latest data from the Health Department, a total of 58 patients with COVID-19 are in Hawaii hospitals, with eight in intensive care units and five on ventilators.
Oahu moved to the less-restrictive Tier 2 of Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s four-tier economic recovery plan on Oct. 22, and must stay in that tier for four weeks. To move to Tier 3 no earlier than Nov. 19, Oahu must maintain a seven-day average case count of 49 or fewer cases, and a seven-day average positivity rate of 2.49% or lower for 14 consecutive days at the end of the four-week period. Today’s seven-day average case count is 50 and the positivity rate was 2.1% for Oahu.
This breaking news story will be updated as more information becomes available.
