SALT LAKE CITY – About a third of Utah’s vaccine-eligible population is now fully inoculated with COVID-19, while just over half of eligible Utahs have received at least one dose of the vaccine, Monday reported the Utah Department of Health.
The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah increased by 200 on Monday, with two more deaths and 1,326 vaccinations reported, according to the health department.
A total of 1,898,857 doses of vaccine have been administered in the state, up from 1,897,531 on Sunday. A total of 1,191,770 Utahns, or about 37.2% of the state’s population, have now received at least one dose of vaccine, while 791,734, about 24.7% of the state’s total population. , are completely vaccinated. According to the health department, approximately 50.1% of all Utahns aged 16 and over have received at least one dose of vaccine. Approximately 33.3% of Utahns 16 years of age or older are fully vaccinated, the health department reported.
To date, a total of 2,168,470 doses of vaccine have been sent to the state, according to data from the health department.
The health department estimates that there are 8,538 active cases of COVID-19 in Utah as of Monday. According to the health department, the average number of positive cases per day seven days a day is 382. The percentage of positive tests per day for this time period calculated using the “people on people” method is now 6, 9%. The positive test rate per day for the time period calculated with the “test over test” method is now 3.5%.
There are currently 138 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Utah, including 54 in intensive care, according to state data. Currently, about 66% of all intensive care beds in Utah are occupied, including approximately 69% of the ICU beds of the state’s 16 reference hospitals. Approximately 51% of non-ICU hospital beds are occupied as of Monday, according to state data.
The new figures indicate an increase of 0.05% in positive cases since Sunday. Of the 2,493,089 people tested so far by COVID-19 in Utah, 15.8% tested positive for COVID-19. The total number of tests conducted since the start of the Utah pandemic is now 4,480,612, an increase of 5,021 since Sunday. Of these, 2,695 were tests of people who had not been tested for the disease.
The two deaths reported Monday were from Weber County. One was a man who was between 45 and 64 years old and was hospitalized when he died, and the second was a woman who was between 45 and 64 years old and resided in a long-term care center.
Monday’s total gives Utah 392,957 confirmed cases in total, with 15,922 total hospitalizations and 2,166 deaths from the disease. According to the Department of Health, an estimated 382,253 cases of COVID-19 are currently being recovered in Utah.
Utah’s “final” pandemic bill, formally known as HB294, requires that all local and state 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 main doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
As of Monday, Utah meets the HB294 thresholds for the first two stats. The state COVID-19 case rate per 100,000 people is now 170.2 and the COVID-19 ICU utilization rate over the past seven days is now 11.9%.
According to the health department, only 1,335,645 premium doses have been allocated in Utah as of Monday. The first doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccination cycles, as well as the only dose of the Johnson & Johnson product, are considered main doses. The state is expected to reach the first 1,633,000 reference doses in the second or third week of May, according to health officials.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Gov. Deidre Henderson are scheduled to provide an update on the COVID-19 pandemic at the weekly press conference at 11 a.m. Thursday, according to the governor’s office .
