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Hawaii reports 89 additional coronavirus cases, bringing statewide total to 15,318

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                                Pedestrians wearing face masks walk along North Hotel Street in Chinatown on Monday. Gov. David Ige said Monday a special legislative session for a statewide mask mandate will be unlikely this year.
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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM

Pedestrians wearing face masks walk along North Hotel Street in Chinatown on Monday. Gov. David Ige said Monday a special legislative session for a statewide mask mandate will be unlikely this year.

Hawaii health officials reported 89 new coronavirus infections statewide today, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 15,318 cases.

No additional deaths were reported today.

The 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 remains at 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 over 232,000 today.

Today’s new infection cases in Hawaii include 73 on Oahu, seven on the Big Island, five Hawaii residents diagnosed outside of the state, three on Lanai, and one on Kauai, according to the health department.


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On Monday, Kauai County officials said the island’s new case is a male resident who recently returned home from the mainland and tested negative as part of the state’s pre-travel testing program. He took a voluntary post-travel test as part of the county’s testing program and tested positive.

Of the seven active coronavirus cases on Kauai, two people are hospitalized.

Two coronavirus cases from Oahu were removed from the statewide tally due to updated laboratory information, health officials said.

Today’s total coronavirus cases by island since the start of the outbreak are 13,321 on Oahu, 1,311 in Hawaii County, 410 on Maui, 103 on Lanai, 67 on Kauai, and 17 on Molokai. There are also XX Hawaii residents diagnosed outside of the state.

As of today, 3,169 infections are considered active cases statewide, with a total of 11,930 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 62 new releases today.

Honolulu has seen 10,519 patients released from isolation, Hawaii County has had 933 releases, Maui has seen 363 patients released, and Lanai has seen 40 release cases. Kauai has seven active infections, and Molokai has none, according to today’s Health Department breakdown.

Of all the confirmed Hawaii cases, 1,124 have required hospitalizations, with 13 new hospitalizations — 11 on Oahu and one each on Kauai and Lanai — reported today by state health officials.

Two hospitalizations in the statewide count are Hawaii residents who were diagnosed and treated outside the state. Of the 1,122 hospitalizations within the state, 994 have been on Oahu, 65 on the Big Island, 57 on Maui, three on Kauai, two on Lanai, and one on Molokai.

According to the latest data from the Health Department’s Hawaii COVID-19 Data dashboard, a total of 65 patients with COVID-19 are in Hawaii hospitals, with 11 in intensive care units and eight 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 58.9 and the positivity rate was 2.4% for Oahu.


This breaking news story will be updated as more information becomes available.


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