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Maui County does not plan to tighten restrictions amid a spike in cases connected to a new strain of COVID-19, though state and county officials are asking the community to remain diligent.
“We’re not going to make major changes to the restrictions,” Mayor Michael Victorino said Monday afternoon during the county’s news conference. “We know what we need to do, our visitors know what they need to do, our businesses are doing a great job I go to many of these businesses I don’t think we need to up the ante at this point.
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Maui County Deputy Director Josiah Nishita (clockwise from top), Maui County Council Member Kelly King and Lt. Gov. Josh Green appear during a virtual town hall meeting hosted by King on Tuesday night to answer questions about the state’s current vaccine distribution efforts, health and safety protocols and COVID-19 cases counts. The Maui News / DAKOTA GROSSMAN photo
Lt. Gov. Josh Green estimated that there are about 10,000 to 12,000 undercounted doses in Maui County, which ranks last in the state in the percentage of the population vaccinated.
In Maui County, 9.1 percent of the total population has received at least one dose of the vaccine so far, according to state Department of Health data as of Wednesday. Kauai County had the highest percentage of residents vaccinated with 18 percent, followed by Honolulu County at 14.6 percent and Hawaii County at 12.7 percent.
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The COVID-19 cluster at the Harbor Lights condominium complex is now up to 92 cases, with more testing to continue, a county official and a Harbor Lights representative said on Friday.
Volunteers, including residents of Harbor Lights, were scheduled to conduct more cleaning of the complex on Friday night, on top of the cleaning that has already taken place in public areas including staircases and elevators, Harbor Lights spokeswoman Laurie Robello said at the county news conference Friday afternoon.
When residents were notified of COVID-19 cases in the complex Christmas Day, Robello said, “there was no violence, no anger.”