Hawaii health officials today reported three additional corona virus-related deaths and 90 new infections statewide in Oahu, bringing the total to 274 deaths and 19,235 cases since the outbreak began.
Further details on the latest deaths were not immediately available.
198 new COVID-19 infections were reported in Hawaii on Saturday, with 153 in Oahu; Mayor Kirk Caldwell attributed the increase to a bunch of halawa editing facilities.
Today, the Halawa prison cluster has grown to 167 inmates and 28 staff, according to the state Department of Public Security. TBS officials said 99 of the 413 inmates’ new test results obtained for the 243 positive rate received an additional positive test. A further seven employees also had positive test results.
Affected prisoners are in medical isolation and victim staff follow government self-isolation guidelines. The prison warden on Thursday ordered precautionary facility-isolation and isolation protocols, officials said in a news release today.
“Security and medical staff work around the clock to protect staff and detainees and prevent the spread of the virus. We are seeking alternative resources to help staff manage this situation,” said PSD Director Max Ottani.
Today’s new statewide outbreak cases are 58 in Oahu, 10 in the Big Island, eight in Maui, four in Kauai, and 10 Hawaii residents outside the state. As a result of the updated information, officials said three cases against Ohu have been dropped from the count.
The figures released today reflect new cases reported to the department by 11:59 pm on Friday.
The official state Department of Health said the death toll from the corona virus was 211 in Oahu, 43 on the island of Hawaii, 17 in Maui, one in Kauai, and two Hawaiian residents. The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said today that the death toll from the Big Island COVID-19 was 49; State health officials have not yet confirmed the corona virus as a factor in those six deaths.
The U.S. corona virus death toll today stands at nearly 300,000, with epidemics at 16 million since the onset of the epidemic; The global death toll is more than 1.6 million, with a total of more than 72 million epidemics.
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Health officials counted 4,851 COVID-19 new test results at a statewide positive rate of 1.7%.
The total number of corona virus cases on the island since the outbreak is 16,266 in Oahu, 1,718 in Hawaii, 692 in Maui, 134 in Kauai, 106 in Lona, and 22 in Molokai. 297 Hawaiian residents have been identified outside the state.
Hawaii health officials estimate that 1,319 cases are active in the state’s total number of infections. Health officials say they consider infections reported over the past 14 days to be “proxy numbers for active events.” The number of active cases in the state has increased by 26 today.
On the island basis, there are 1,008 active cases in Oahu, 160 in Moi, 124 in Big Island, 22 in Kauai, and five in Molokai.
Of all confirmed Hawaiian infection cases, 1,365 should be hospitalized, state health officials reported today at four new hospitals.
Three of the statewide hospital admissions were Hawaiian residents who were diagnosed and treated outside the state. Of the 1,362 hospitals within the state, 1,200 are in Oahu, 82 on the Big Island, 67 in Moo, seven in Koo, five in Lao and one in Molokai.
According to the latest information from the department’s Hawaii Govt-19 data dashboard, 58 patients infected with the virus remain in Hawaiian hospitals until noon Friday, 21 in the intensive care unit and 17 on the ventilator.
On October 22, Ohu moved to the lower control tier 2 of Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s four-tier economic recovery plan. The mayor’s office says the city takes a “weekly assessment” every Wednesday of two major COVID-19 numbers to see if Honolulu will move to another level. To move from Tier 2 to Tier 3, the 7-day average of new cases must be below 50 on two consecutive Wednesdays. Also, the 7-day average positive rate on those two Wednesdays should be less than 2.5%.
According to Caldwell, Ohu’s seven-day average case count today is 73 and the positive rate is 2.3%.