HONOLULU — The state recorded one new coronavirus-related death on O‘ahu and 103 new infections statewide, bringing the totals since the start of the pandemic to 169 fatalities and 13,472 cases, health officials said Sunday.
HONOLULU — The state recorded one new coronavirus-related death on O‘ahu and 103 new infections statewide, bringing the totals since the start of the pandemic to 169 fatalities and 13,472 cases, health officials said Sunday.
No immediate details were released about the latest fatality.
More than 20 recent reported coronavirus-related deaths in Hawai‘i County have yet to be included in the state’s official coronavirus death toll.
The U.S. coronavirus death toll was over 214,000 Sunday.
As of Sunday, 2,553 infections are considered active cases statewide, with a total of 10,750 patients now classified by health officials as “released from isolation,” or about 80% of those infected, according to the state’s official count. The category counts those infected people who have met the criteria for being released from isolation. Officials reported 37 new releases Sunday.
Sunday’s new infection cases include 79 on O‘ahu and 24 on Hawai‘i Island. As a result of updated information, two cases from O‘ahu were removed from the count.
Sunday’s total coronavirus cases by county since the start of the outbreak are 12,031 on O‘ahu, 948 in Hawai‘i County, 397 in Maui County and 59 in Kaua‘i County. There are also 37 Hawai‘i residents diagnosed outside of the state.
Hilo Medical Center said Saturday that the Big Island’s coronavirus-related death toll is now 37. The medical center said 27 deaths are from the Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home and three from the Life Care Center, both in Hilo, and seven from the greater community. The state Department of Health’s official state death toll counts only 15 Hawai‘i Island deaths, with health officials saying the other reported fatalities are pending verification.
In addition to the 15 Hawai‘i County deaths, the department’s official state death toll includes 141 on O‘ahu, 12 on Maui, and one fatality of a Kaua‘i resident who died on the mainland.
