The Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard for Saturday morning, June 6, at 8:33 a.m.:
Worldwide cases: 6,800,604 Worldwide deaths: 396,591
U.S. cases: 1,908,235 U.S. deaths: 109,443
The United States has added 23,038 cases in the last 24 hours, and deaths attributed to COVID-19 have increased by 735.
Hawaii saw an increase of 9 cases on Friday, but the State Department of Health says 3 of them are old cases added to the count (they initially said 4). The new cases are all on O’ahu. The total in the state is 664.
Hawaii News Now reported that 2 employees at the senior living facility Kalakaua Gardens on O’ahu have tested positive, and that a third employee at an unidentified senior living facility has also tested positive. But State Department of Health has not said where the 6 new cases are nor how nor if they are connected. Lt. Gov. Josh Green said some of them are related to lack of social distancing over the Memorial Day weekend.
Interisland travel reopens on June 16. Gov. David Ige, in an interview Friday afternoon, said he’s still looking at reopening travel from out of state. He said he would like to encourage travel from those areas with low case counts–Alaska, Montana, Oregon, Australia, New Zealand.
Lt. Gov. Josh Green is advocating for testing people before they come into the state, or when they arrive. Alaska is requiring that now. Green is asking for input on his ideas.
