SALT LAKE CITY – The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah rose 358 on Tuesday, with two more deaths and 30,001 reported vaccinations, according to the Utah Department of Health.
The average continuous number of seven positive days a day is now 406, according to the health department. The positive daily test rate for that time period calculated using the “people over people” method is now 7.7%. The positive daily test rate for that period calculated using the “test over test” method is now 3.8%.
There are 124 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Utah, including 59 in intensive care, state data show. About 64 percent of all beds in intensive care units in Utah are now occupied, including about 67 percent of ICU beds in 16 state referral beds, according to the health department. About 48% of non-ICU hospital beds are now occupied, state data show.
A total of 1,738,003 doses of vaccine were administered in the state, increasing from 1,708,002 months. A total of 1,120,254 Utahs have now received at least one dose of vaccine, while 699,517 are now considered fully vaccinated. A total of 1,956,010 doses of vaccine have been shipped to Utah so far.
The new figures indicate a 0.09% increase in positive cases on Monday. Of the 2,455,549 people tested for COVID-19 in Utah to date, 15.9% tested positive for the disease. The total number of tests conducted since the pandemic began in Utah is now at 4,395,138, up 15,222 months. Of these, 5,683 were tested in individuals who had not been previously tested for COVID-19.
The two deaths reported on Tuesday were a woman from Salt Lake County, who was between 45 and 64 years old and was hospitalized when she died, and a woman from Carbon County, who was between 65 and 84 years old and did not was hospitalized when she died.
Tuesday’s total gives Utah 390,647 confirmed cases in total, with 15,804 total hospitalizations and 2,161 total deaths from the disease.
Utah HB294, which is also known as the state’s “endgame” bill, requires that all state and local health orders related to COVID-19 end on the day Utah reaches the three-point threshold. key: the state’s 14-day case rate is less than 191 per 100,000 people, the seven-day average use of the COVID-19 intensive care unit is below 15%, and 1,633,000 COVID-19 vaccine prime doses have were assigned to Utah.
The 14-day case rate is now at 173.1, and the seven-day COVID-19 ICU average is now at 10%. The primary allocation of the state dose is now 1,063,775, according to health officials. It is expected to exceed the threshold of 1,633,000 doses in the second or third week of May, health officials say. The first doses refer to the first dose of Pfizer or Moderna vaccine cycles, as well as the only dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Spencer Cox, the governor of Utah, is scheduled to provide a COVID-19 update during his monthly press conference with PBS Utah at 10 a.m. Thursday.
Health officials said Tuesday that Utah will discontinue Johnson & Johnson after federal regulators said six cases of blood clotting were reported in women receiving the vaccine. No cases of blood clotting related to Johnson & Johnson in Utah have been reported.