New COVID-19 Case Reported on Garden Island
The Hawai‘i State Department of Health Kaua‘i District Health Office reported one case of COVID-19 on Wednesday, March 17.
Today’s case is an adult female visitor whose source of infection is related to mainland travel. All active cases are in isolation. Close contacts are being identified, directed to quarantine, and offered testing.
Today’s case brings the number of active cases to one, with 218 cumulative cases. Kaua‘i’s cumulative case count includes 186 confirmed locally, one probable, and 31 positive cases diagnosed elsewhere, as they received their pre-travel test results after arriving on island.
For more information on the county’s COVID-19 response, visit www.kauai.gov/COVID-19.
For more information on the state’s COVID-19 cases or the state’s Safe Travels program, visit hawaiicovid19.com.