Two more Utahns die from coronavirus and another 200 cases are reported.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) People line up for the vaccine on Thursday, March 18, 2021, while Utah film studios in Park City are lending their space to the Summit County Health Department as COVID-19 vaccination station. .
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The number of fully vaccinated Utahns against COVID-19 increases to 800,000. Just over a third of the eligible population (34.4%) of residents aged 16 and over received either both doses of Moderna or Pfizer vaccines or the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine.
And it was a usually slow Sunday, with relatively few tests (just over 5,000), relatively few new cases reported (200) and relatively few vaccinations (just over 1,300). Two more Utahs died from the coronavirus, according to the Utah Department of Health, bringing the state’s total death toll from COVID-19 to 2,166.
Last day vaccine doses / total doses • 1,326 / 1,898,857.
Utahns fully vaccinated • 791,734.
Cases reported the other day • two hundred.
Deaths reported last day • Two, both in Weber County – a man and a woman, each aged between 45 and 64.
Tests reported the other day • 2,695 people were tested for the first time. A total of 5,021 people were tested.
Hospitalizations reported last day • 138. There are five since Sunday. Of those currently hospitalized, 54 are in intensive care units – one less than on Sunday.
Percentage of positive tests • According to the initial state method, the rate is 7.4%. This is higher than the seven-day average of 6.9%.
The new state method counts all test results, including repeated tests of the same individual. Monday’s rate was 4.0%, higher than the seven-day average of 3.5%.
[Read more: Utah is changing how it measures the rate of positive COVID-19 tests. Here’s what that means.]
Totals so far • 392,957 cases; 2,166 deaths; 15,922 hospitalizations; 2,493,089 people tested.
On Monday, the Utah Department of Health made a change in the number of COVID-19 tests per day. He had previously reported one test per person per day.
But because of the use of antigen tests, which are often confirmed by PCR tests on the same day, the UDOH now reports these confirmatory tests in the total number of tests. The percentage of positive tests will be further calculated with one test per person per day.