Hawaii health officials reported 110 new coronavirus infections statewide today, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 16,412 cases.

The official state Department of Health coronavirus-related death toll remains unchanged at 222, and includes 173 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 48, however, state health officials have yet to verify coronavirus as a factor in 17 of those deaths.

The U.S. coronavirus death toll is more than 244,000 today.

Today’s new infection cases in Hawaii include 92 on Oahu, eight on the Big Island, two on Kauai, one on Maui, and seven Hawaii residents diagnosed outside the state, according to the Health Department.

Department officials said today’s new statewide new case count came from 4,860 COVID-19 tests, for a 2.3% statewide positivity rate.

Today’s total coronavirus cases by island since the start of the outbreak are 14,172 on Oahu, 1,459 in Hawaii County, 443 on Maui, 106 on Lanai, 75 on Kauai, and 17 on Molokai. There are also 138 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside of the state.

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Hawaii health officials said that of the state’s total infection count, 1,414 infections are currently considered active cases statewide. 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.” They said this new classification serves as a “proxy number for active cases” and is based on infections reported in the past 14 days. The total number of active cases rose by 17 today.

The Health Department says the number of active cases by island include: 1,091 on Oahu, 199 on the Big Island, 36 on Maui, 13 on Kauai, and seven on Lanai, plus 68 of the residents diagnosed outside the state.

Of all the confirmed Hawaii infection cases, 1,194 have required hospitalizations, with seven new hospitalizations — four on Oahu, two on Lanai and one on Hawaii island — 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 1,194 hospitalizations within the state, 1,091 have been on Oahu, 71 on the Big Island, 58 on Maui, five each on Kauai and Lanai, and one on Molokai.

According to the latest data from the department’s Hawaii COVID-19 Data dashboard, a total of 69 patients with COVID-19 were in Hawaii hospitals as of Thursday, with 16 in intensive care units and one on a ventilator.

Oahu moved to the less-restrictive Tier 2 of Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s four-tier economic recovery plan on Oct. 22. The mayor’s office says that to gauge whether Honolulu will move to a different tier, the city takes a “weekly assessment” of two key COVID-19 numbers each Wednesday. To move to Tier 3 from Tier 2, the 7-day average of new cases must be below 50 on two consecutive Wednesdays. Also the 7-day average positivity rate, or percentage of tests coming back positive, must be below 2.5% on those two Wednesdays.

Today’s seven-day average case count for Oahu is 83 and the positivity rate was 3%, according to the mayor.