SALT LAKE CITY – The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah rose Wednesday by 590, with three more deaths and 34,472 reported vaccinations, according to the Utah Department of Health.
The health department estimates that there are now 8,552 active cases of the disease in Utah. According to the health department, the average number of positive cases per day seven days a day is 384. The percentage of positive tests per day for this time period calculated using the “people on people” method is now 6, 2%. The positive test rate per day for the time period calculated with the “test over test” method is now 3%.
There are currently 146 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Utah, including 58 in intensive care, according to state data. About 61% of all hospital beds in intensive care units are occupied, with approximately 65% of ICU beds in the state’s 16 reference hospitals. Approximately 51% of all non-ICU hospital beds are occupied in the state, according to state data.
A total of 1,950,894 doses of vaccine have been administered in the state, up from 1,916,922 on Tuesday. A total of 1,217,167 Utahns have now received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 819,683 are fully vaccinated. To date, a total of 2,180,690 vaccine doses have been sent to Utah.
Approximately 51.2% of Utahns 16 years of age or older who are eligible for the vaccine have now received at least one dose of vaccine and 34.5% of the population eligible for the state vaccine is now fully vaccinated. . Approximately 38% of the total population of Utah, including those under the age of 16, who are not currently eligible for the vaccine, has received at least one dose and 25.6% of the population is fully vaccinated.
The new figures indicate an increase of 0.2% in positive cases since Wednesday. Of the 2,505,996 people tested so far to detect COVID-19 in Utah, 15.7% tested positive for the disease. The total number of tests conducted since the beginning of the pandemic is now 4,525,584, an increase of 15,496 since Tuesday. Of these, 4,057 were tests of people who had not been tested for COVID-19, according to the health department.
The three deaths reported on Wednesday were:
- A Davis County man who was between 65 and 84 years old and was hospitalized when he died
- An Iron County woman who was between 65 and 84 years old and was admitted to hospital when she died
- A Utah County woman who was between 25 and 44 years old and was hospitalized when she died
Wednesday’s total gives Utah 393,862 confirmed cases, with a total of 15,981 hospitalizations and 2,177 deaths from the disease. According to the Department of Health, an estimated 383,133 cases of COVID-19 are currently being recovered in Utah.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Gov. Deidre Henderson are scheduled to provide an update on the COVID-19 pandemic at its weekly press conference at 11 a.m. Thursday, according to the governor’s office. .
Utah’s pandemic end-bill, HB294, requires that all local and state health orders related to COVID-19 end on the day Utah reaches the threshold in three key metrics: the 14-day case rate of the state is less than 191 per 100,000 people, the average seven-day use of the COVID-19 intensive care unit is less than 15%, and 1,633,000 major doses of the COVID vaccine have been assigned to Utah -19.
The state meets the HB294 benchmark in the first two statistics as of Wednesday. The 14-day case rate in Utah is now 169.9 per 100,000 people and the average use of seven-day COUID-19 COU is 11.1%.
To date, 1,335,645 major doses have been assigned to Utah. The state is expected to meet the 1,633,000 main reference doses in the second or third week of May, according to health officials. The first dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine cycles, as well as the only dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, are considered major doses.
