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Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported one new coronavirus-related death and 1,513 new confirmed and probable infections statewide, bringing the state’s totals since the start of the pandemic to 1,181 fatalities and 219,288 cases.
No further information was immediately available regarding the latest deaths.
The U.S. coronavirus-related death toll today is over 880,000 and the nationwide infection tally is more than 74 million.
Today’s new confirmed and probable infection count includes 956 new cases on Oahu, 159 on Hawaii island, 193 on Maui, 161 on Kauai, five on Molokai, seven on Lanai and 32 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.
Hawaii health officials said the state’s electronic data collection system for cases has become so overwhelmed by the number of test results that it stopped processing negative test results beginning Jan. 16. The move should provide a more accurate daily count of positive cases, officials said, but the change means that the state will not be able to calculate the case positivity rate.
This breaking news story will be updated as more information becomes available.
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