SALT LAKE CITY – The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah rose Tuesday by 300, with four more deaths and 28,314 reported vaccinations, according to the Utah Department of Health.
The health department estimates that there are 9,057 active cases of COVID-19 in Utah. According to the health department, the average continued number of positive cases per day for seven days is 387. The positive test rate per day for this time period calculated using the “people on people” method is now 7.1 %. The positive test rate per day for this time period calculated with the “test over test” method is now 3.4%.
There are currently 130 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Utah, including 48 in intensive care, according to state data. Approximately 65% of the intensive care unit’s hospital beds are now occupied in Utah, including 69% of ICU beds in the state’s 16 reference hospitals, according to state data. According to the health department, approximately 47% of non-ICU hospital beds are already occupied.
A total of 1,526,353 vaccines have been administered in the state, up from 1,498,039 on Monday. A total of 994,402 Utahns have received at least one dose of vaccine, while 579,627 have been fully vaccinated. To date, 1,734,950 doses of vaccine have been sent to Utah, including first and booster doses.
The new figures indicate an increase of 0.1% in positive cases since Monday. Of the 2,417,211 people tested for COVID-19 in Utah to date, 16.1% tested positive for COVID-19. The number of tests conducted since the beginning of the pandemic is now 4,305,397, an increase of 10,662 since Monday. Of these, 4,018 were tests of people who had not been previously tested for COVID-19.
The four deaths reported on Tuesday were:
- A Salt Lake County woman who was between 45 and 64 years old and was hospitalized when she died
- A man from Tooele County who was between 65 and 84 years old and was hospitalized when he died
- A Utah County man who was between 45 and 64 years old and was hospitalized when he died
- A Weber County man who was between 45 and 64 years old and was hospitalized when he died
Tuesday’s totals give Utah 387,814 confirmed cases in total, with 15,656 total hospitalizations and 2,137 deaths from the disease. According to the health department, it is estimated that 376,620 cases of COVID-19 are recovered in Utah.
A COVID-19 press conference has not yet been scheduled for this week.
Utah’s “final” pandemic bill, formally known as Bill 294, requires that all state and local health orders related to COVID-19 end on the day Utah reaches the threshold in three key metrics. : the state’s 14-day case rate 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 they have been assigned to Utah 1,633,000 major doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
As of Tuesday, Utah is meeting the threshold in the first two measures. The 14-day case rate is 176.7 and the average use of the COVID-19 ICU over the last seven days is approximately 9.3%. Last week, only 920,515 major doses of vaccine had been assigned to Utah.
The first doses refer to the first dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and the single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The main dose allocation is only updated once a week and the allocation is expected to reach the 1,633,000 threshold in the second or third week of May, according to health officials.
