The City and County of Honolulu's free COVID-19 testing will continue to be available to all Oahu residents at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, but will return to normal operating hours after they were extended in January.

Due to "the precipitous drop in coronavirus cases on Oahu " and lowered demand for testing, the city's Mobile Lab at the airport will return to its normal operating hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, starting Monday, city officials said.

Previously, the site was open until 9 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to ensure testing services were accessible to residents during the omicron surge.
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The city is poised to drop vaccine-or-test requirements for patrons of restaurants, bars, gyms, movie theaters and other venues in early March, the mayor said Thursday.

The city’s Safe Access Oahu program launched in September, and Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi told Hawaii News Now that he’s unlikely to extend the emergency order when it expires March 5.

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Covid-19 cases have plummeted in recent weeks, raising hopes that the omicron-driven surge is nearing an end, but the daily death toll is reaching pandemic highs.

This spike in deaths comes weeks after the highly transmissible coronavirus variant pushed case numbers to pandemic highs, reaching a seven-day average of 4,725 cases mid-January, according to the latest state numbers.

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