HONOLULU — The state Deparatment of Health reported Sunday that Hawai‘i recorded three more coronavirus-related deaths and 70 new infections statewide, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 156 deaths and 12,804 total cases.
HONOLULU — The state Deparatment of Health reported Sunday that Hawai‘i recorded three more coronavirus-related deaths and 70 new infections statewide, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 156 deaths and 12,804 total cases.
The DOH confirmed the 70 new cases statewide, and that the three latest deaths occurred on Maui. No further details on the three deaths were released.
Hawai‘i Island, separately Sunday, reported the first COVID-19 death at the Live Care Center in Hilo, the second nursing home in the area to be experiencing a major cluster of virus cases.
The death brings the island’s reported coronavirus death toll to 30, with 27 of the fatalities among residents of the Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home. However, the state’s official death toll included only 15 Hawai‘i island fatalities as of Saturday.
In addition to the 15 Big Island deaths, the official death toll includes 128 on O‘ahu, and 12 on Maui, while one fatality was a Kaua‘i resident who died on the mainland.
Sunday’s new infection cases include 53 on O‘ahu, 15 on the Big Island, and two on Maui, officials said.
The U.S. death toll was nearly 210,000 Sunday.
