Kauai sees its first new COVID-19 case in more than 2 months

Health care workers conduct COVID-19 testing in Hawaii.
Health care workers conduct COVID-19 testing in Hawaii.(Hawaii News Now)
Updated: Jun. 18, 2020 at 3:44 PM HST
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Kauai was informed Thursday of its first new COVID-19 case in more than two months.

The new case is in an adult man who lives on the island, and it wasn’t immediately clear if it was travel-related.

It brings to 22 the number of COVID-19 cases Kauai has seen since the pandemic began. The last time a new case was reported on Kauai was in early April.

Officials said the state is conducting a case investigation to notify close contacts and ask them to quarantine.

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