A growing number of states have adopted the new technology as a tool to boost contact tracing when case counts explode.

The official death toll is now 222, although seventeen deaths on Hawaii island are still missing from that total.

Oahu has seen an average of 88 new cases reported daily in the last week.

This is the first of what the health department says will be weekly reports about coronavirus case clusters.

The state has seen more than a hundred new daily cases for three consecutive days.

The health care organization is eliminating mostly administrative positions.

Oahu may delay moving to the next tier of its reopening plan.

More than 100 cases were recorded on Oahu, which increased its average daily case count — a key metric for reopening.

The public has been given scant details about how and where people are being infected with the coronavirus.