Hawaii records 10 new coronavirus-related deaths, 1,177 additional infections

Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported 10 new coronavirus-related deaths and 1,177 new confirmed and probable infections statewide, bringing the state’s totals since the start of the pandemic to 1,191 fatalities and 221,533 cases.

No further information was immediately available regarding the latest deaths.

The U.S. coronavirus-related death toll today is over 885,000 and the nationwide infection tally is more than 75 million.

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 between Jan. 16 and 30. 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.

State health officials said the positivity rate for each county is currently unavailable. As of Jan. 31, state health officials are using an interim method to calculate the statewide positivity rate.

This breaking news story will be updated as more information becomes available.