Two more Utahns die from coronavirus and 200 more 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 cede their space to the Summit County Health Department as a vaccination station COVID-19. .
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The number of Utahns fully vaccinated against COVID-19 increases to 800,000. Just over a third of the eligible population (34.4%) of residents 16 years of age or older have received doses of Moderna or Pfizer vaccines or the Johnson & Johnson single vaccine.
And it was a typically slow Sunday, with relatively few tests (just over 5,000), relatively few new cases reported (200) and relatively few vaccines (just over 1,300). Two more Utahns died from the coronavirus, according to the Utah Department of Health, which raised the total number of deaths in the state of COVID-19 to 2,166.
Dose of vaccines administered last day / total doses administered • 1,326 / 1,898,857.
Fully vaccinated Utahns • 791,734.
Cases reported last day • 200.
Deaths reported last day • Two, in Weber County: a man and a woman, each between 45 and 64 years old.
Tests reported last day • 2,695 people were tested for the first time. A total of 5,021 people were tested.
Hospitalizations reported last day • 138. That supposes five from Sunday. Of those currently hospitalized, 54 are in intensive care units, one less than on Sunday.
Percentage of positive tests • According to the original method of the state, the rate is 7.4%. This is above the seven-day average of 6.9%.
The new state method counts all test results, including repeated tests by 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.]
Total so far • 392,957 cases; 2,166 dead; 15,922 hospitalizations; 2,493,089 people tested.
On Monday, the Utah Department of Health made a change in the way it counts the number of COVID-19 tests per day. Previously, one test per person per day had been reported.
But due to the use of antigen tests, which are often confirmed by same-day PCR tests, UDOH now reports these confirmatory tests on the total number of tests. The percentage of positive tests will still be calculated with one test per person per day.