1 New Case Reported on Garden Island

The Hawai‘i State Department of Health Kaua‘i District Health Office reported one new case of COVID-19 on Friday, April 2.

Friday’s case is an adult female resident who is a household contact of recent cases. Her source of infection is considered travel-related.

All active cases are in isolation. Close contacts are being identified, directed to quarantine, and offered testing.

Friday’s case brings the number of active cases to eight, with 231 cumulative cases. Kaua‘i’s cumulative case count includes 196 confirmed locally, two probable, and 33 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.