SALT LAKE CITY – The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah rose 481 on Tuesday, with five more deaths and 16,373 reported vaccinations, according to the Utah Department of Health.
The Department of Health estimates that there are now 11,668 active cases of COVID-19 in Utah. According to the health department, the average number of positive seven-day positive cases is now 492. The positive daily test rate for that period compared to the ‘people over people’ method is now 8.3%. The positive seven-day average test rate calculated using the ‘test-by-test’ method is now 4.1%.
There are 171 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Utah, including 55 in intensive care, state data show. About 67 percent of the beds in the Utah intensive care unit are now occupied, including 68 percent of the ICU beds in the state’s 16 referral hospitals, according to the health department. About 46% of non-ICU hospital beds are now occupied in Utah.
A total of 1,027,073 doses of vaccine were administered in the state, increasing from 1,010,700 months. A total of 679,409 Utahns have now received at least one dose of vaccine, and 372,564 are fully vaccinated. A total of 1,213,260 doses of the vaccine were delivered in Utah, the Department of Health reports.
The new figures show a 0.1% increase in positive cases on Monday. Of the 2,298,572 people tested for COVID-19 in Utah to date, 16.5% tested positive for the disease. The total number of tests performed since the beginning of the pandemic is now 4,029,685, up 15,610 months. Of these, 5,476 were tests in people who had not been previously tested for COVID-19, according to the health department.
The five deaths reported on Tuesday include:
- A woman from Salt Lake County, who was between 65 and 84 years old and was hospitalized when she died
- A man from Summit County who was over 85 years old and was not hospitalized when he died
- A Utah woman who was between 65 and 84 years old and was not hospitalized when she died
- A man from Washington County who was over 85 years old and a resident of a long-term care institution
- A Washington County man between the ages of 65 and 84 was a resident of a long-term care facility.
Tuesday’s total gives Utah 379,081 confirmed cases in total, with 15,167 hospitalizations in total and 2,032 deaths in total due to the disease. A total of 365,381 cases in Utah COVID-19 are now considered recovered, according to the health department.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox is scheduled to deliver a pandemic update Thursday at 10 a.m. during his monthly press conference with PBS Utah.
