Department of Health: Four Additional Deaths Reported and 306 New COVID-19 CasesThree O‘ahu women and one (1) O‘ahu man, all who had been hospitalized with underlying medical conditions raise the coronavirus death toll in Hawai‘i to 55.
Two of the women are in the 70 to 79-year-old age group and the other woman and the man are 80-years or older.Today’s daily positivity rate for Hawaiʻi is 12% (306-cases divided by 2,478-tests).
While the total number of cases reported today seems higher, the current percent of positive cases (6.8%) is approximately the same because cases are reporting earlier illness onsets and earlier specimen collection dates.