Hawaii reports another coronavirus-related death on Oahu and 105 new infections statewide
Hawaii health officials today reported an additional coronavirus-related death on Oahu and 105 new infections statewide, bringing the totals since the start of the pandemic to 262 fatalities and 18,527 cases.
No further information was immediately available regarding the latest death.
The official state Department of Health coronavirus-related death toll includes 199 fatalities on Oahu, 43 on Hawaii island, 17 on Maui, one on Kauai, and two Hawaii residents who died on the mainland. The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said today that the Big Island’s COVID-19 death toll remained 49; state health officials have yet to verify coronavirus as a factor in six of those deaths.
The U.S. coronavirus death toll was more than 282,000 today.
Today’s new infection cases in Hawaii include 87 on Oahu, six on Maui, five on the Big Island, and seven Hawaii residents diagnosed outside of the state, according to the Health Department. As a result of updated information, one infection case from Hawaii island was dropped from the state’s counts, officials said.
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