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Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported four new coronavirus-related deaths and 845 new confirmed and probable infections statewide, bringing the state’s total since the start of the pandemic to 552 deaths and 51,200 cases.
No further information was immediately available regarding the latest deaths.
The state’s official coronavirus death toll includes 426 deaths on Oahu, 62 on Maui, 59 on the island of Hawaii, two in Kauai and three Hawaii residents who died out of state.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths in the United States today is over 621,000 and the number of infections nationwide is over 36.6 million.
Today’s new number of confirmed and probable infections per island includes 543 new cases in Oahu, 85 in Maui, 147 in the island of Hawaii, 46 in Kauai, six in Molokai, two in Lanai and 16 residents of Hawaii diagnosed out of state.
State health officials included probable infections in the total number of cases. Likely infections include people who have never received a confirmatory test but who would have had the virus because of their exposure and known symptoms or because of a positive antigen test.
The total number of confirmed and probable coronavirus cases per island since the start of the epidemic is 36,516 in Oahu, 6,017 in Maui, 5,589 in Hawaii County, 839 in Kauai, 119 in Lanai and 125 in Molokai. There are also 1,995 residents of Hawaii who have been diagnosed out of state.
Statistics released today reflect the new cases of infection reported to the department on Friday.
Health officials also said today that, of the state’s total infections, 7,998 cases were considered active. Officials say they view infections reported in the past 14 days as a “proxy number for active cases.” The state’s total number of active cases today increased by 368.
Per island, Oahu has 5,500 active cases, the Big Island has 1,420, Maui has 751, Kauai has 282, Lanai has two, and Molokai has 43.
Hawaii’s latest COVID-19 vaccine summary shows that 1,797,402 doses of vaccine have been administered through state and federal distribution programs as of Thursday. Health officials say 61% of the state’s population is now fully vaccinated and 68% have received at least one dose.
Of all confirmed cases of infection in Hawaii, 3,030 required hospitalizations, with 30 new hospitalizations reported today.
Sixteen hospitalizations in the state’s overall tally are residents of Hawaii who were diagnosed and treated out of state. Of the 3,014 hospitalizations in the state, 2,445 were in Oahu, 354 in Maui, 192 in Big Island, 16 in Kauai, five in Lanai and two in Molokai.
According to the latest information from the department’s Hawaii COVID-19 Data dashboard, a total of 283 patients with the virus were in hospitals in Hawaii on Friday, including 50 in intensive care units and 38 on ventilators.
The seven-day average number of cases for Oahu is 438 and the seven-day average positivity rate is 8.2%, state health officials said today.
This breaking news will be updated as more information becomes available.
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