The Hawaii Division of Well being todayreported six further COVID-related deaths, bringing the state’s COVID toll because the begin of the pandemic to 2,183.
The reported deaths come after two consecutive weeks of no new COVID fatalities.
COVID metrics, in the meantime, continued to point out an uptick in each day by day common circumstances and common positivity charges because the “FLiRT” variants turn out to be dominant throughout the U.S.
DOH reported a day by day common of 186 circumstances a day this week, up from 175 final week. The typical positivity charge elevated to 17.9%, up from 16.7% the earlier week. In Honolulu, the common positivity ticked as much as 21.0%.
The variety of COVID sufferers in hospitals, nevertheless, eased to a weekly common of 119 in contrast with 126 the earlier week.
Hawaii and California are among 15 states with excessive or very excessive ranges of the coronavirus detected in wastewater, which additionally function an indicator of circulation in the neighborhood.
The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention continues testing wastewater from sewage sheds to trace viral exercise ranges, as these contaminated shed it of their feces, with or with out signs. CDC’s map exhibits Hawaii, New Mexico and Florida are amongst states with very excessive ranges of wastewater viral exercise ranges.
The state Division of Well being’s respiratory disease dashboard continues to categorize COVID as excessive, whereas influenza and RSV are low.
The share of emergency division visits for COVID additionally continued to rise over the previous week.
The six deaths reported have been all kupuna, together with an Oahu man in his 60s who was hospitalized. The remainder have been girls ages 70 and above.
Just one, a girl in her 80s on Kauai, was confirmed to have underlying situations.
