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the seven-day average of COVID-19 cases on Hawaii Island is 434 and the community spread <br />of COVID-19 has resulted in increased hospitalization and strained health care resources, <br />including utilization of the limited number of ICU hospital beds on island. Without <br />immediate action, the County of Hawaii is unable to meet urgent health care needs of our <br />island community. As a result, it is necessary to continue restrictions in order to reduce the <br />threat of spread of COVID-19 and enable our health care resources to meet urgent health <br />care needs attributable to COVID-19; and <br />WHEREAS, due to the possibility of imminent emergency or disaster due to bodily <br />injury to residents of the County of Hawaii, and the need for government agencies and <br />representatives from the private sector to mobilize and provide financial and other immediate <br />services to our island residents, a state of emergency is authorized pursuant to Chapter 127A <br />Hawaii Revised Statutes, and Chapter 7, Hawai`i County Code. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, I, MITCHELL D. ROTH, Mayor of the County of Hawaii, do <br />hereby proclaim and declare that a state of emergency continues to exist due to the imminent <br />danger or threat of emergency on Hawaii Island from the COVID-19 pandemic. <br />This Thirteenth Supplementary Emergency Proclamation shall be effective January 26, <br />2022, continuing thereon until March 26, 2022, unless terminated or superseded by a. separate <br />proclamation, whichever shall occur first. <br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the <br />County of Hawaii to be affixed. Done this 2°a day of February, 2022 in Hilo, Hawaii. <br />Mitchell D. Roth <br />Mayor <br />County of Hawaii <br />