Hawaii DOE | HIDOE launches info dashboard to tell community of confirmed COVID-19 cases in colleges

The Hawaii Point out Division of Education (HIDOE) currently launched an interactive dashboard on its internet site to screen verified COVID-19 circumstance facts at its 257 educational facilities and other Division places of work. 

“This dashboard was built with mother and father in brain as we get the job done to construct self esteem in the important work our faculties are undertaking to keep educational facilities open and protected for finding out,” interim Superintendent Keith Hayashi mentioned. “It’s aspect of our commitment to consistently strengthen communication and transparency as we construct have faith in with our communities. We persuade everybody to get a glimpse at the info for them selves and see what we’re observing — that faculties are not amplifiers of COVID-19 transmission since of the mitigation protocols universities are enforcing.”

The dashboard features verified and possible COVID-19 circumstance information from the condition, district, complicated area and university amounts. Circumstance counts are visually shown by day reported and as a cumulative working overall of instances given that July 1, 2021. The 2021-22 college yr began July 8 for students at multitrack educational institutions and Aug. 3 for all other colleges. In accordance with Act 4, Session Legal guidelines of Hawaii 2021, the dashboard also involves the day every scenario was reported to the Section and the date the positively examined individual was last on a university campus.

Details will be up to date day-to-day, Monday through Friday (excluding vacations), prior to the close of enterprise at http://bit.ly/hidoe-covid-updates. Each day situation counts will reflect verified COVID-19 cases noted the day prior. Noted scenarios that even now involve confirmation or processing will not be provided in the overall.

Educational facilities will keep on to make the pursuing notifications for all verified and probable scenarios:

• Speedy notification to people today who could have arrive into close speak to with the infected individual about doable exposure even though preserving confidentiality in accordance with condition and federal regulation.

• Notification to staff and parents/guardians about the possible publicity and HIDOE activities to incorporate the spread of an infection.

Between Aug. 20 and 26, HIDOE educational facilities and advanced areas described a whole of 557 confirmed personnel and student circumstances. Day by day counts this week mirror a slight fluctuation due to the Department’s transition to a new on the web scenario-reporting process.

Educational facilities and the Division labored promptly to react to these instances, recognize and notify close contacts, direct correct folks to quarantine, disinfect facilities as needed, and continue to enforce the core critical strategies.

Though local community transmission stages keep on being superior, the Division has no regarded instances of pupils obtaining sick with COVID-19 as a result of coming to university, and there is no evidence of clusters on HIDOE campuses.

The dashboard reporting program will exchange the Department’s information releases of weekly case stories. HIDOE families and fascinated associates of the general public are encouraged to check the dashboard on a regular basis for updates.