Health officials reported 190 new COVID-19 cases statewide on Monday, including 158 on Oahu, 15 on the Big Island and 15 on Maui. Two Hawaii residents were diagnosed out of state.

No new fatalities were reported.

The numbers reported by the health department Monday reflect diagnoses confirmed by the department through Saturday at 11:59 p.m.

At a press conference Monday, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said that an outbreak at an Oahu correctional facility is affecting Oahu’s weekly case and testing rates — two metrics that determine when the island will loosen some COVID-19 related restrictions.

Approximately 85 of the Oahu cases announced Monday were associated with Halawa Correctional Facility, which also had 63 cases recorded Saturday, he said. Halawa has 936 inmates and at least 169 people at the facility have tested positive for COVID-19 to date.

Caldwell said he discussed revising Oahu’s reopening strategy to exclude inmate cases from influencing rules for the general population this week with Gov. David Ige and state health officials, but no changes have been made yet.

“The greater concern for me is having to snap back to Tier 1 where we’d be in semi-lock down again, which would not be good,” Caldwell said.

Oahu remains in Tier 2 of its reopening plan. The island had an average of 84 new cases recorded daily during the past week, and 3% of tests conducted on the island were positive. The island must see a positivity rate of 2.49% or lower for two consecutive weeks to enter Tier 3, which would loosen some restrictions.

Meanwhile, the first shipment of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Hawaii on Monday. Vaccinations of at-risk health care workers are scheduled to begin at the Queen’s Health Systems on Tuesday.

According to Janice Okubo, spokeswoman for the Hawaii Department of Health, the COVID-19 case reports are based on test results from laboratories statewide and include test results from both residents and tourists tested within the state.

The results of Hawaii residents who test positive out of state also are included, as well as cases confirmed among military service members and their families, although military cases are not specifically indicated.

If a visitor takes a test outside of Hawaii, those test results are reported to their home state health authorities and would not be reflected in the Hawaii health department’s reports. In some cases, rapid point-of-care testing results are not submitted to the DOH and are not included in these daily reports either.

There were 1,425 cases recorded during the last two weeks — a metric that the health department uses as a proxy to estimate how many people currently have active infections.

The official state death toll on record by the Department of Health is 274. Civil Beat calculates at least 280 people have died from the disease in Hawaii, including six deaths on Hawaii island that are still pending medical verification by the state. The Hawaii County Civil Defense has recorded 49 deaths on the Big Island.

For more information, check this Hawaii Department of Health COVID-19 site or this state site, and the Hawaii Data Collaborative COVID-19 Tracking site. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency also provides this comprehensive dashboard.

Cases, Deaths And COVID-19 Testing In Hawaii

Honolulu’s 7-Day Averages

Hawaii COVID-19 Cases By County

Daily New COVID-19 Cases

Number Of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In U.S.

COVID-19 Cases Worldwide

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