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The latest data represents a total of 3,837 “active” cases statewide over two weeks. This is below the delta peak of 11,500. Maui County’s seven day average of cases is now 13.5 cases per 100,000. This is below the delta peak of 57.6 per 100,000 reported on Aug. 25, and the 412.1 per 100,000 reported on Jan. 21, 2022.

Of today’s 55 cases, there were 40 cases identified as confirmed, and +15 probable cases were added to the count.  The confirmed cases included: 20 on O‘ahu (+8 probable); four on Hawai‘i Island (+3 probable); one on Maui (+2 probable); 11 on Kaua‘i (+2 probable); and four Hawai‘i residents diagnosed while out of state.

The confirmed cases included: 38 on O‘ahu (+4 probable); seven on Hawai‘i Island (+1 probable); six on Maui (+1 probable); six on Kaua‘i; and 12 in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed while out of state.

The state Department of Health reports that there were 46 additional COVID-19 cases reported in Hawai‘i on Monday, including 22 on O‘ahu, 15 on Maui, seven on Hawai‘i Island, and two in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed out of state. There were a total of 693 cases logged over the past two weeks, 242 of them on Maui.

Although a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration is not expected to be widely available until early next year, state and county officials and private-sector partners have already prepared a preliminary plan to implement a COVID-19 vaccination program in the state.