
BIVN graphic features the number of new cases as reported by the Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense on Friday, and yesterday's map showing zip code areas with reported cases having onset dates in the past 28 days according to the Hawaiʻi health department.
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HAWAIʻI ISLAND - Free testing will be available to the public today in Pāhoa and in Kona, the Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense reported.
graphic by BIVN
UPDATE – (2 p.m.) – There were 89 newly reported cases of COVID-19 statewide as of noon on Friday, the Hawaiʻi Department of Health reported. One new death was also reported.
On the health department’s zip code area map showing reported COVID-19 cases with onset dates in the past 14 days, the following Hawaiʻi island locations have totals of over 10 cases:
UPDATE – (10:30 a.m.) – From the Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense morning radio message:
NOTE: This story will be updated with today’s COVID-19 numbers when they are made available.
(BIVN) – There are two district tests scheduled for today which are free and open to the public, the County of Hawaiʻi says.
The first will be in Puna at the Pāhoa District Park and the second will be in North Kona at the Keauhou Shopping Center.
“Understand that the importance of testing is to identify positive cases as early as possible and in this way help stop the spread of the Coronavirus,” the Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense stated on Thursday.
On Thursday evening, Kona Community Hospital reported one death occurred in the hospital. The hospital also reported three (3) total COVID-positive patients are hospitalized: three (3) are in ICU, and two (2) ventilators are in use.
There have been 53 resident COVID-19 cases at the Life Care Center of Hilo. That includes:
There has also been 16 associate cases reported at the Life Care Center. There are nine (9) active associate cases, and seven (7) associates have fully recovered.
As of Thursday, there were a total of four (4) COVID-positive patients hospitalized at Hilo Medical Center. One (1) in the ICU, and (3) in the COVID Unit.