David Y. Ige | HAWAI‘I COVID-19 JOINT INFORMATION CENTER DAILY NEWS DIGEST Feb. 16, 2021

Division of Well being:

https://health.hawaii.gov/coronavirusdisease2019/what-you-should-know/current-situation-in-hawaii/

Every day Preliminary Vaccine Administration Updates

The chart under will probably be included within the Every day Information Digest, Monday-Friday. A weekly abstract is included every Wednesday.

Digital Lab Reporting Briefly Interrupted

Resulted in Undercount

DOH reviews 17 new instances of coronavirus at the moment. There have been no further deaths. The Hawai‘i Well being Data Alternate has been working carefully with the Illness Outbreak and Management Division (DOCD) to re-establish reporting feeds as rapidly as attainable.  DOCD anticipates a “rebound” impact of elevated case quantity over the subsequent few days as feeds are re-established.

This report contains instances up till Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Full knowledge is posted on the State COVID-19 dashboard and on the DOH Illness Outbreak & Management Division web site every day: hawaiicovid19.com/dashboard.

Hawai‘i COVID-19 Counts as of 11:59 p.m. Feb. 14, 2021

Hospitalizations as of 8:30 a.m. on 2/12/21 – Hawai‘i-0, Maui-5, O‘ahu-40, Kauaʻi-0

Division of the Legal professional Basic

Two Louisiana Residents Charged with Bribing Airport Screeners

Two guests had been arrested final Friday on the Daniel Ok. Inouye Worldwide Airport, accused of making an attempt to bribe airport screeners to permit them to bypass the State’s obligatory Secure Travels guidelines.

In keeping with reviews from the Dept. of Public Security and the AG’s Workplace, 29-year-old Johntrell White of Simmesport, LA and 28-year-old Nadia Bailey of Baton Rouge arrived in Hawai‘i with out legitimate COVID-19 exemptions or pre-tests. White allegedly informed an airport screener he would give her $2,000 to move by with out having to quarantine. Bailey additionally allegedly informed the identical screener she would throw in a further $1,000 to allow them to each by with out quarantining.

The screener alerted deputy sheriffs, who arrested them each for bribery. White and Bailey had been booked and launched and instantly flew again to the mainland. The lawyer basic’s investigation is continuous.

Additionally, on Friday, Particular Brokers from the AG’s Investigations Division arrested a 44-year-old Michigan customer for violating quarantine guidelines. Brokers had been alerted by a Waikīkī space resort that Anthony Johnson of Rouge River didn’t present up at his designated place of quarantine and in reality had checked into one other resort to avoid the quarantine guidelines.

Johnson was tracked to the Kailua-Lanikai boat ramp and was arrested simply earlier than he’d deliberate to go swimming. His bail was set at $2,000.

Division of Public Security:

Statewide Inmate Testing Continues

COVID-19 testing is repeatedly being carried out statewide in any respect services. Over the weekend, the Maui Neighborhood Correctional Heart (MCCC) reported 55 damaging inmate outcomes as a part of mass testing efforts underway on the facility. There have been two (2) inmate recoveries reported bringing the overall lively inmate instances all the way down to 18. No MCCC workers have reported having COVID-19. Halawa Correctional Facility (HCF) reported 40 damaging inmate outcomes. HCF is obvious of all lively inmate instances. For extra info on PSD’s planning and response efforts to COVID-19: http://dps.hawaii.gov/blog/2020/03/17/coronavirus-covid-19-information-and-resources/.

Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority:

11,591 Passengers Arrive on Monday

Yesterday, a complete of 11,591 folks arrived in Hawai‘i from out of state. A complete 6,870 folks indicated they got here to Hawai‘i for trip. There have been additionally 1,484 returning residents. The trans-Pacific passenger arrival knowledge is derived from knowledge supplied by the Secure Travels digital system.

To view extra: https://www.hawaiitourismauthority.org/covid-19-updates/trans-pacific-passenger-arrivals/