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Kauai mayor: County will roll back to Tier 3 amid rise in COVID cases
By HNN Staff
Published: May. 4, 2021 at 8:48 PM HST|Updated: May. 4, 2021 at 11:02 AM HST
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Kauai Mayor Derek Kawakami says he plans to roll the county back into Tier 3 of its reopening plan Thursday amid a rise in COVID-19 cases.
“The number of cases and positivity rate does warrant us to roll back into Tier 3, which we will be proposing to the governor to do,” Kawakami said, in an interview Tuesday on HNN Sunrise.
Kawakami added that he’s looking at “fine tuning” the tiers to encourage people to use outdoor spaces instead of indoors.
Kauai to remain in Tier 4 for now as island deals with upward COVID case trend
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Kauai County officials are growing increasingly worried over signs of coronavirus spread within the island’s community.
On Thursday, the county independently reported 13 new cases.
A county spokesperson says three of the cases are related to inter-island travel, while the remaining are considered community spread. Of the new cases, eight were adults and five were children.
Officials said as of Wednesday night, there were 47 active cases, which is more than ever before.
Kauai Mayor Derek Kawakami says they’re seeing “extensive and sustained community transmission” and the county may move into a more restrictive tier if cases continue to climb.
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The chief of the Kaua i Police Department in Hawaii received a five-day unpaid suspension after he was found to have made comments mocking people of Asian descent.
After an employee launched a complaint against Chief Todd G. Raybuck, an investigation uncovered that he had violated the county’s policy against discrimination in November 2019 and July of last year, according to a statement released by the department on Friday.
The human resources probe also said that the employee, who alleged Raybuck made racist comments to him, was not passed up for promotions because of his ancestry, race or national origin.