LIHU‘E — The state Department of Health Kaua‘i District Health Office reported seven new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.
Thursday’s cases are all adult residents. The source of infection for six of the cases is mainland-travel-related. The seventh case is considered community-acquired and is a close contact of a previously-announced case. All active cases are in isolation, and close contacts are being identified, offered testing and directed to quarantine. Investigations are ongoing.
“We are seeing a high number of cases in residents returning from mainland travel. If you have to travel, we respectfully request that you get tested three to five days after your return,” said Dr. Janet Berreman, DOH Kaua‘i district health officer.
”Testing is free at Kaua‘i War Memorial Convention Hall weekdays from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. As a reminder, vaccination is the strongest tool we have to protect our community from the spread of COVID-19. Almost all of our cases are unvaccinated. If you haven’t already, consider getting vaccinated immediately,” she said.
Testing is also available through primary-care physicians, hospitals and urgent-care clinics. Contact those providers directly for more information. For more details, visit kauai.gov/covidtest.
Thursday’s cases bring the number of active cases to 34, with one hospitalized, and 452 cumulative cases. Kaua‘i’s cumulative case count includes 408 confirmed locally, three probable, and 41 positive cases diagnosed elsewhere, as they received their pre-travel test results after arriving on island.
Anyone with symptoms or feeling sick should isolate immediately, stay away from household members, and not go out — including to work or school — unless seeking testing or health care. Those who have been vaccinated should still be tested if they believe they may have been exposed or if they feel sick.
Residents aged 18 and older are eligible for any vaccine available at pharmacies, hospitals and clinic locations. The Pfizer vaccine has been authorized for use in those 12 and older, and appointments are available at hospitals and pharmacies for this age group.
Vaccination is free and widely available on the island, including on weekends and evenings and at pop-up vaccination opportunities at community sites. Many vaccination sites accept walk-ins. For details, visit kauai.gov/vaccine. Those who plan to travel can protect themselves and their families by being fully vaccinated before traveling.
For more information on the county’s COVID-19 response, visit kauai.gov/COVID-19.
For more information on the state’s COVID-19 cases, visit hawaiicovid19.com.
If Safe Travels requires test results within 72 hrs of your last flight to Hawaii why are there still cases reported that are associated with mainland travel?
Are passengers (returning residents and visitors alike) with a positive test allowed to board their plane regardless of the result?
Close the gaps in the system or stop with the fear monger reporting…
Who in the world would go to the mainland and not get vaccinated first? Great Aloha bringing it back with you you Kaua’i. Shakes head.
Plenty of people with a brain that doesn’t want to be a trial run for an experimental vaccine that “reduces symptoms” but doesn’t keep you from catching covid
You bet the vax reduces symptoms. It will likely keep me out of the hospital and should keep me from dying. I think anything that gives me a chance to survive is worth it. With over 300,000 vaccines administered it is no longer a trial run.
When I do catch it again – I will survive. I pray I have no ‘long-covid’ disabilities.
This will not be over for a long time.
Up to 34 active cases? I hope there will be an opportunity to reevaluate our move to Tier 5!
Namaskaram Ms. Sabanathan. These aren’t actually cases – just positive test results but asymptomatic. Only one person is in the hospital now. I think we’re safe!
petrina.kauai@gmail.com – That unvaccinated person is now on Oahu on a ventilator does that still feel safe to you ?
Not gonna happen. The mayor and chamber have an event coming up so why did you think we went to Tier 5. This whole system is a scam. Originally it ended at Tier 4.
>> “Almost all of our cases are unvaccinated.” – Dr. Janet Berreman, DOH Kaua‘i district health officer
Show us the data, please. Validate that claim or else it’s just an agenda. There are reports all across the country of vaccinated people testing positive.
Further, why are we still even calling them “cases”? There is only ONE true case – the person hospitalized. We however don’t even know if they are actually in the hospital due to covid or another issue.
There’s been 2 people hospitalized and one die of COVID this week on Kauai, Kali. Sorry no one’s bringing you a personalized case report – but the information you’re getting is trash. And the CDC and the HDOH has all the data you want ig you’re not too lazy to search for it.
https://coronavirus.smartnews.com/us/hawaii/kauai
Last death on Kauai with Covid as a factor was on April 29th. Before you call people lazy for not “searching for the data”… you should probably search for the data.
You people are just insufferable at this point.
So, I’m curious. All these people traveling to the main land and coming back sick. Did they get the vaccine before traveling? Did they get tested before flying home? I guess it will be better now since everyone coming needs to be vaccinated.
If you think you are sick, you are. People use face mask for a reason. I don’t think many people from Hawai’i are going to the mainland. Too risky. They will catch the virus again. Then panic. Finally hospitalized. Whoa…
petrina.kauai@gmail.com – I personally know the patient and that he was unvaccinated – this started as double Covid pneumonia and now he is on a ventilator on Oahu this is fact.