SALT LAKE CITY – The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah increased by 481 on Tuesday, with five more deaths and 16,373 reported vaccinations, according to the Utah Department of Health.
The health department estimates that there are now 11,668 active cases of COVID-19 in Utah. According to the health department, the average number of positive cases per day seven days a day is 492. The percentage of positive tests per day for this time period communicated with the “people on people” method is now 8, 3%. The positive seven-day test rate calculated using the “test over test” method is now 4.1%.
There are currently 171 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Utah, including 55 in intensive care, according to state data. Currently, approximately 67% of Utah’s intensive care beds are occupied, including 68% of the ICU beds of the state’s 16 reference hospitals, according to the health department. Approximately 46% of non-ICU hospital beds are now occupied in Utah.
A total of 1,027,073 vaccine doses have been administered in the state, up from 1,010,700 on Monday. 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 vaccine have been administered in Utah, according to the health department.
The new figures indicate an increase of 0.1% in positive cases since Monday. Of the 2,298,572 people tested so far to detect COVID-19 in Utah, 16.5% tested positive for the disease. The number of tests conducted since the pandemic began is now 4,029,685, an increase of 15,610 since Monday. Of these, 5,476 were tests from people who had not been tested for COVID-19, according to the health department.
The five deaths reported on Tuesday are:
- A woman from Salt Lake County who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was hospitalized when she died
- A man from Summit County who was over 85 and who was not hospitalized when he died
- A Utah County woman who was between 65 and 84 years old and was not hospitalized when she died
- A Washington County man who was over 85 and resided in a long-term care center
- A Washington County man between the ages of 65 and 84 was a resident of a long-term care center
Tuesday’s totals give Utah 379,081 confirmed cases in total, with 15,167 total hospitalizations and 2,032 deaths from the disease. According to the health department, a total of 365,381 cases of COVID-19 in Utah are considered recovered.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is scheduled to provide a pandemic update at 10 a.m. Thursday during his monthly press conference with PBS Utah.
