Hawaii health officials reported one new corona­virus-related death on Oahu and 128 new infections statewide Saturday, bringing the totals since the start of the pandemic to 220 deaths and 15,819 cases.

The official state Department of Health death toll is now 220, with 171 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 reported the Big Island’s COVID-19 death toll as 48, however. State health officials now have yet to verify coronavirus as a factor in 17 of those deaths.

The U.S. coronavirus death toll is over 236,000 as of Saturday, and reported 132,797 new cases, a record high.

Hawaii’s new cases include 108 on Oahu, 11 on the Big Island, two each on Kauai and Maui and five Hawaii residents diagnosed outside of Hawaii, according to the health department.

Since the start of the outbreak, there have been 13,704 total cases on Oahu, 1,386 on Big Island, 423 on Maui, 106 on Lanai, 71 on Kauai and 17 on Molokai. There have been 112 additional Hawaii residents who were diagnosed outside of the state.

The new cases on Oahu don’t bode well for the island’s chances to continue opening up its economy.

Oahu moved to the less-­restrictive Tier 2 of Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s four-tier economic recovery plan on Oct. 22. To move to Tier 3, which allows for more businesses to reopen and larger social gatherings, 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.

As of Saturday, the seven-­day average case count was 82 and the positivity rate was 3.1% for Oahu, according to Caldwell, making the minimum four weeks on Tier 2 irrelevant. The mayor issued a statement calling for Oahu residents to stay vigilant.

“Now is not the time to give up,” he said. “Going into the next few months we have an opportunity to keep the numbers down and continue moving forward. I know this is difficult. I am asking everyone, if you gather, please gather safely. Gather in groups of five or less for now. Wear your face coverings even when you’re around your close friends. This won’t be forever, but if we all do our part now we can save lives, keep our community healthy, keep our economy open, and work toward a more normal way of life.”

The DOH said 1,273 infections statewide are considered active cases. Health officials have replaced the “released from isolation” statistic, which had been used to calculate the number of active cases, with “cases in the past 14 days.” The department said this new classification serves as a “proxy number for active cases” and is based on infections reported in the past 14 days.

The health department reported on Saturday that 128 positive tests came back from a batch of 6,174 new COVID-19 tests — a 2.1% statewide positivity rate.

Of all the confirmed Hawaii cases, 1,157 have required hospitalization, and 10 new hospitalizations — eight on Oahu and one each on Maui and the Big Island — were reported on Saturday by state health officials.

Two hospitalizations in the statewide count are Hawaii residents who were diagnosed and treated outside the state. Of the 1,155 hospitalizations within the state, 1,022 have been on Oahu, 68 on the Big Island, 58 on Maui, three each on Kauai and Lanai, and one on Molokai.

According to the latest data from the Health Department’s Hawaii COVID-19 Data dashboard, a total of 75 patients with COVID-19 are in Hawaii hospitals, with 13 in intensive care units and eight on ventilators.

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