SALT LAKE CITY – The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah increased Friday by 422, with six more deaths and 40,049 more reported vaccines, according to the Utah Department of Health.
Four of the deaths occurred before March 1, but state medical investigators were still investigating them, the health department said.
According to the health department, the average number of positive cases per day seven days a day is 407. The percentage of positive tests per day for this time period communicated with the “people on people” method is now 6, 9%. The seven-day daily positive test rate calculated using the “test over test” method is now 3.4%.
There are currently 138 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Utah, including 46 in intensive care, according to state data. Approximately 64% of all intensive care hospital beds in Utah are occupied as of Friday, including approximately 67% of the ICU beds of the state’s 16 reference hospitals, according to the health department. Currently, about 53% of non-ICU hospital beds are occupied in Utah.
A total of 1,450,263 doses of vaccine have been administered in the state, compared to 1,410,214 on Thursday. A total of 948,468 Utahns have now received at least one dose of vaccine, while 541,293 are fully vaccinated. A total of 1,691,460 vaccine doses have been administered in Utah, according to state data.
The new figures indicate a 0.1% increase in positive cases since Thursday. Of the 2,400,410 people tested for COVID-19 in Utah to date, 16.1% tested positive for COVID-19. The total number of tests conducted since the pandemic began rose to 4,268,946, an increase of 14,258 since Thursday. Of these, 5,761 were tests from people who had not been previously tested for COVID-19, according to state data.
The six deaths reported on Friday were:
- A Davis County woman who was between 65 and 84 years old and resided in a long-term care center
- A woman from Millard County who was between 65 and 84 years old and was hospitalized when she died
- A Salt Lake County man who was between 65 and 84 years old and was hospitalized when he died
- A woman from Salt Lake County who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was hospitalized when she died
- A Utah County woman who was over 85 years old and resided in a long-term care center
- A Weber County man who was over 85 and resided in a long-term care center
Friday’s totals give Utah 386,550 confirmed cases, with 15,573 hospitalizations and 2,131 deaths from the disease.
Utah House Bill 294, also known as the state’s “final” COVID-19 bill, requires that all state and Utah health orders related to the pandemics end on the day that 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 have assigned 1,633,000 premium doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Utah.
Now the state meets the benchmark in the first and second metrics. The 14-day case rate is 180.3 as of Friday and the average seven-day use of UCI COVID-19 in Utah is 10.3%, according to data from the health department. According to the Department of Health, a total of 920,515 major doses of vaccine have been allocated in Utah.
Utah leaders on Thursday offered an update on the COVID-19 pandemic.
