SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah Department of Health on Saturday reported another 686 confirmed cases of COVID-19 testing in the state, as well as 22 other deaths from the disease and 19,757 additional doses of the vaccine.
Nineteen of the deaths occurred before Feb. 6, officials said, but were still under investigation. Overall, this brings Utah to 370,770 confirmed cases, 1,929 deaths and 702,293 doses of vaccine given since the pandemic came almost a year ago.
Of those vaccines administered, 249,398 have so far been the second dose.
Currently, 223 Utahns have been hospitalized for COVID-19, including 89 in intensive care. Saturday’s new cases come with 17,724 additional test results reported. A total of 3,798,843 tests have now been performed at the state level on approximately 2,201,426 different people.
In the last week, the state has an average of 681 cases per day and a positive test rate of 5.5%.
The deaths reported on Saturday included 12 men:
- A Beaver County resident over the age of 85 who was hospitalized when he died
- A Beaver County resident, aged 65 to 84, who was hospitalized
- A Davis County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 who was not hospitalized when he died
- An Emery County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 who was hospitalized
- A Salt Lake County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 who has not been hospitalized
- A resident of Salt Lake County, aged between 65 and 84, who was hospitalized
- A Utah resident over the age of 85 who lived in a long-term care facility
- A Washington County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 who was not hospitalized
- A Washington County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 who lived in a long-term care facility
- A Washington resident over the age of 85 who was not hospitalized
- A Weber County resident between the ages of 45 and 64 who lived in a long-term care facility
- A Weber County resident between the ages of 45 and 64 who was not hospitalized
It also included 10 women:
- A Cache County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 who lived in a long-term care facility
- An 85-year-old Emery County resident who was not hospitalized when she died
- Four Salt Lake County residents between the ages of 65 and 84 living in long-term care facilities
- A Salt Lake County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 who has not been hospitalized
- A Utah County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 who lived in a long-term care facility
- A Utah County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 who was hospitalized when she died
- A Washington resident over the age of 85 living in a long-term care facility
Health department data shows that there are currently 17 long-term care facilities in Utah, with active outbreaks among their residents.
There is no coronavirus press conference scheduled for the weekend. On Thursday, Gov. Spencer Cox announced that Utahns, 16 and older, with certain comorbidities, is immediately eligible for the coronavirus vaccine. The full list of comorbidities that make a person eligible for the vaccine is available at coronavirus.utah.gov/vaccine-distribution/#eligibility.
Utah currently administers two-dose Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, while Cox Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine is expected to arrive in Utah next week also.