Hawaii officials eye lockdowns amid surge of delta variant

ONOLULU — As readers keep on to fly to Hawaii and locals go about their small business, state officers say the islands may well require to go into lockdown if the surge in COVID-19 delta variant circumstances continue to increase.

County mayors are asking for additional constraints and Gov. David Ige explained to Hawaii News Now on Thursday that rigid mandates are becoming regarded as.

If scenario counts proceed to increase “and we push the hospitals throughout that line then we will have to go to additional severe measures, lockdowns and possibly shutting corporations,” Ige said.

Hawaii has had approximately 16,000 new bacterial infections in August amid a spike of scenarios that has frequently broken point out data. Earlier this 7 days, Ige questioned that travellers end coming to the islands, but stopped quick of enacting any official restrictions on vacation.