Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported one new coronavirus-related deaths and 4,204 new confirmed and probable infections statewide, bringing the state’s totals since the start of the pandemic to 1,102 fatalities and 138,646 cases.
No further information was immediately available regarding the latest deaths.
The state’s official coronavirus-related death toll includes 811 fatalities on Oahu, 155 on Hawaii island, 105 on Maui, 18 on Kauai, two on Molokai, and 11 Hawaii residents who died outside the state.
Hawaii Department of Health investigators find out the vaccination status of each positive case after the fact, which is why those statistics are not included side by side in the daily case counts, officials have previously said.
The U.S. coronavirus-related death toll today is nearly 837,000 and the nationwide infection tally is nearly 59.5 million.
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Today’s new confirmed and probable infection count by island includes 2,974 new cases on Oahu, 408 on Hawaii island, 564 on Maui, 185 on Kauai, 12 on Molokai, five on Lanai, and 56 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside the state.
State health officials have been including probable infections in its total case counts. Probable infections include people who never received a confirmatory test but are believed to have had the virus because of their known exposure and symptoms or because of a positive antigen test.
The daily infection tally is usually from cases reported to the state two days earlier.
Health officials also said today that, of the state’s total infection count, 36,701 cases were considered to be active. Officials say they consider infections reported in the past 14 days to be a “proxy number for active cases.” The state’s total number of active cases increased today by 2,328.
Of all the confirmed Hawaii infection cases, 5,361 have required hospitalizations, with 18 new hospitalizations reported today.
This breaking news story will be updated as more information becomes available.
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