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Hawaii Department of Health officials reported 533 new confirmed and probable coronavirus infections today, bringing the state’s total since the start of the pandemic to 227,817 cases.
No new virus-related fatalities were reported today so the statewide COVID-19 death toll remains 1,226.
The U.S. coronavirus-related death toll today is over 900,000 and the nationwide infection tally is more than 76.4 million.
Today’s new confirmed and probable infection count includes 357 new cases on Oahu, 72 on Hawaii island, 52 on Maui, 38 on Kauai two on Lanai and 12 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 158,838 on Oahu, 24,615 on Hawaii island, 27,010 on Maui, 10,568 on Kauai, 891 on Molokai and 582 on Lanai. There are also 5,313 Hawaii residents who were diagnosed outside of the state.
Health officials also said today that, of the state’s total infection count, 19,929 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 1,229.
This breaking news story will be updated as more information becomes available.
Source: Star
