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TY OF <br />COUNTY OF HAWA�sI *_ f?*� S'TA'TE OF HAWAII <br />•a=Pr <br />RESOLUTION NO. 716 20 <br />A RESOLUTION URGING THE MAYOR'S OFFICE TO AUTHORIZE. GOOGLE <br />AND/OR APPLE TO RELEASE SUSTAIN HA IAFFS 66SAFE TRAVELS CONTACT <br />TRACING APPLICATION" FOR VOLUNTARY USE BY COUNTY CONSTITUENTS <br />TO AUGMENT EXISTING SAFETY PROTOCOLS CURRENTLY IN PLACE IN THE <br />STATE OF HAWAII IN RESPONSE TO THE COVIID-19 PANDEMIC. <br />WHEREAS, on March 4, 2020, Governor Ige -issued a .series of proclamations declaring <br />a state of emergency to support ongoing State and County responses to COVIN -19; and <br />WHEREAS, alongside Governor Ige's ;proclamations, Hawaii County has also issued a <br />series of emergency rules, supplementary proclamations, and policies pertaining to the current <br />pandemic; and <br />WHEREAS, according to a Civil Beat article, dated August 12, 2020, by Yoohyn Jung, <br />the State of Hawaii has recorded more than 1,300 new cases since the beginning of August. <br />Currently, the seven-day average- of new cases is at 166.7 1, compared with 1.71 two months ago; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, all current statistical models show Hawaii as having one of the highest <br />effective reproduction rates or infection rates (RT) in the country; and <br />WHEREAS, Hawaii Co- ulty's hospital bed, Intensive care unit (ICU), and ventilator <br />resources are limited, thereby putting our residents at serious risk if the need for increased <br />hospitalization arises; and <br />WHEREAS, contact tracing and testing have been shown to minimize and contain the <br />spread of the COVID-19 virus; and <br />WHEREAS, currently the Department of Health (DOH) contact tracing application is <br />still under development and as yet, is not ready for public use; and <br />WHEREAS, Sustain Hawai`i's Safe Travels contact tracing application is ready to go <br />public; and <br />WHEREAS, the Safe Travels contact tracing app_ lication.needs approval by the Mayor's <br />Office to go public via Apple and Google; and <br />WHEREAS, the Safe Travels contact tracing application is currently approved by Apple <br />for a pilot with Kauai Island and Sustain Hawaii is independently running a Safe Travels <br />application pilot on Oahu; and <br />