120 New COVID Cases Confirmed on Garden Isle

The Hawai‘i State Department of Health Kaua‘i District Health Office announced 120 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, Dec. 28.

“In light of rapidly rising case counts, the Kaua‘i District Health Office will be providing simplified daily case updates consisting of total new case counts only, starting today,” said Dr. Janet Berreman, Kaua‘i District Health Officer. “This allows timely public notification of the number of new cases. Information about resident versus visitor cases, travel versus community-acquired, and age distribution will continue to be available on the DOH’s online data dashboard. The daily case counts reported by KDHO continue to be in advance of case totals reported by the state.”

Today’s cases bring the number of active cases to 353, with four hospitalized, and 3,798 cumulative cases. Kaua‘i’s cumulative case count includes 3,731 confirmed locally, eight probable, and 59 positive cases diagnosed elsewhere, as they received their pre-travel test results after arriving on island.

To view the Hawai‘i State Department of Health’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard, visit https://health.hawaii.gov/coronavirusdisease2019/current-situation-in-hawaii/.

For more information on the county’s COVID-19 response, visit www.kauai.gov/COVID-19.