SALT LAKE CITY – The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah increased by 383 on Tuesday, with 15 more deaths and 23,950 reported vaccines, according to the Utah Department of Health.
Twelve of the deaths occurred before March 1, but were still being investigated by forensic doctors, according to the health department.
Health officials now estimate there are 10,536 active cases of COVID-19 in Utah. According to the health department, the average number of positive cases per day for seven days is 443. The percentage of positive tests per day for this time period communicated with the “people on people” method is now 7.8% . The seven-day daily positive test rate calculated using the “test over test” method is now 4%.
There are currently 131 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Utah, including 49 in intensive care, according to state data. Currently, about 64% of intensive care beds in Utah are occupied, including about 66% of the ICU beds of the state’s 16 reference hospitals. Approximately 47% of non-ICU hospital beds are already occupied, according to state data.
A total of 1,178,728 doses of vaccine have been administered in the state, up from 1,154,778 on Monday. A total of 780,081 Utahns have now received at least one dose of vaccine and 429,306 are fully vaccinated, according to health department data. To date, a total of 1,323,050 doses of vaccine have been sent to Utah.
The new figures indicate an increase of 0.1% in positive cases since Monday. Of the 2,340,071 people tested so far to detect COVID-19 in Utah, 16.3% tested positive for the disease. The total number of tests conducted since the beginning of the pandemic is now 4,124,865, an increase of 15,624 since Monday. Of those, 6,022 were tests from people who had not been tested for COVID-19, the health department said.
The 15 deaths reported on Tuesday were:
- A Cache County man who was between 45 and 64 years old and was admitted to hospital when he died
- A Davis County man who was between 65 and 84 years old and resided in a long-term care center
- Two men from Davis County who were over 85 and were residents of long-term care centers
- A Garfield County man who was over 85 years old and resided in a long-term care center
- Two women from Salt Lake County who were between the ages of 65 and 84 and were residents in long-term care centers
- A Salt Lake County man who was between 65 and 84 years old and was not hospitalized when he died
- Two women from Salt Lake County who were between 65 and 84 years old and were not hospitalized when they died
- A Utah County woman who was between 65 and 84 years old and resided in a long-term care center
- A Utah County woman who was over 85 years old and resided in a long-term care center
- A man from Utah County who was over 85 and who was not hospitalized when he died
- A Utah County man who was between 45 and 64 years old and was not hospitalized when he died
- A Weber County woman who was between 65 and 84 years old and resided in a long-term care center
Tuesday’s totals give Utah 382,171 confirmed cases in total, with 15,323 total hospitalizations and 2,077 deaths from the disease. According to the health department, a total of 369,558 cases of COVID-19 in Utah are considered recovered.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson are scheduled to provide an update on the COVID-19 pandemic at a news conference at 11 a.m. Thursday.