Hawaii Department of Health officials reported 498 new confirmed and probable coronavirus infections today, bringing the state’s total since the start of the pandemic to 232,008 cases.
No new virus-related fatalities were reported today so the statewide COVID-19 death toll remains 1,262.
The U.S. coronavirus-related death toll today is over 915,000 and the nationwide infection tally is more than 77.5 million.
Today’s new confirmed and probable infection count includes 228 new cases on Oahu, 86 on Hawaii island, 63 on Maui, 101 on Kauai, two on Molokai, three on Lanai and 15 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.
The total number of confirmed and probable coronavirus cases by island since the start of the outbreak are 161,243 on Oahu, 25,184 on Hawaii island, 27,443 on Maui, 11,112 on Kauai, 921 on Molokai and 607 on Lanai. There are also 5,498 Hawaii residents who were diagnosed outside of the state.
Health officials also said today that, of the state’s total infection count, 11,785 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 decreased today by 1,053.
Health officials counted a daily average of 608 new cases in today’s tally, for a 6.3% statewide average positivity rate. The seven-day average for Oahu is 387 cases with a 5.8% positivity rate, according to the Hawaii COVID-19 Data dashboard.
Of all the confirmed Hawaii infection cases, 5,895 have required hospitalizations, with seven new hospitalizations reported today.
This breaking news story will be updated as more information becomes available.
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