Gov. Ige held press conferences on July 6 and seven. (You’ll be able to view the July sixth convention here and July seventh here in case you have greater than a few hours to kill.) Between the 2 press conferences, the governor has indicated that the pre-travel testing program remains to be “below development.”
Yesterday, July 7, 2020, Hawaii had their largest single-day, COVID-19 instances reported – 41. The earlier excessive was 34 instances again on April 3, 2020. By means of yesterday, 1071 instances have been recognized with the overwhelming majority of these being on Oahu.
Hawaii has reopened a lot of its native financial system and as such have been anticipating the rise in instances. Although they’re involved with the elevated instances, they’re higher ready to conduct contact tracing to check and isolate people who may probably unfold the virus.
Moreover, the rise in instances has not translated right into a pressure on the state’s well being care system. Only a few COVID-positive sufferers are requiring intensive care in Hawaii. As Lt. Gov. Inexperienced reported on the July 6 press convention, Hawaii presently has 244 ICU beds of which, solely 49% are in use. Solely three of these beds are being occupied with COVID-19 sufferers. Hawaii has 459 ventilators of which 53 are presently in use and solely two of these are for sufferers with COVID-19. Clearly a surge in instances isn’t fascinating, however Hawaii has capability to answer a surge, if mandatory.
Between the 2 press conferences in current days, a number of members of the press requested the governor if he may delay the August 1st begin of opening journey to Hawaii with out quarantine with a destructive pre-travel check. These questions have been raised in mild of the truth that the variety of instances on the U.S. mainland have been rising. On the July sixth press convention, the governor stated,
“We’re monitoring what occurs and clearly if we do see circumstances that we do really feel that will put the well being and security of our neighborhood at jeopardy, we are going to think about extending that August 1st date, however at this time limit, with greater than three weeks previous to that date, we’re dedicated to creating positive that every one the issues that we have to put in place so as to safely welcome again trans-Pacific vacationers who get examined, we do consider that we’ve got the programs to have the ability to do this safely.”
So, that’s the place all the pieces stands in the mean time. We’ll proceed to maintain looking out for and report information because it pertains to reopening Hawaii journey.
