People are expecting a COVID-19 test Monday at Utah State Park in Salt Lake City. Utah reported 1,280 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. (Kristin Murphy, Deseret News)
SALT LAKE CITY – The current wave of COVID-19 cases in Utah continued to rise Thursday, with 1,280 new cases as well as 14 more deaths due to the disease.
The new cases were confirmed from 7,878 people tested, with a positive rate of 16.2%, according to the Utah Department of Health. The average daily positive test seven days a day is 1,010 per day and the average rate of people who test positive is 13.6%.
Five of the deaths reported on Thursday occurred before July 19, officials said.
Healthcare workers administered 9,280 more vaccine doses since the previous day, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the state to 3,166,428.
Health department officials said Thursday that in the past 28 days, unvaccinated residents have experienced a 5.5-fold higher risk of dying from COVID-19, a 6.3-fold higher risk of being hospitalized in due to COVID-19 and a 4.9-fold higher risk of giving positive. for COVID-19 than vaccinated residents.
Of the more than 1,200 new cases confirmed on Thursday, only nine were advanced cases, meaning the person had been completely vaccinated. Ten additional hospitalizations were advanced patients and two of the confirmed fatalities from coronavirus were also completely vaccinated, according to data from the health department.
The data show that advanced cases have been confirmed in 7,757 people in Utah, 460 of whom have required hospitalization and 32 who have died. The mortality rate of fully vaccinated coronavirus patients stands at 0.00227%.
Now, 399 people in the state are hospitalized with the disease, 162 of whom are being treated in intensive care units.
The latest deaths bring the death toll in Utah due to the disease to 2,563. They include:
- Weber County man, hospitalized 45-64.
- Utah County man, 45-64, hospitalized.
- Salt Lake County man, 45-64, not admitted.
- Weber County man, 45-64, hospitalized.
- Salt Lake County woman, age 65 to 84, resident in long-term care center.
- Salt Lake County woman, 45-64, hospitalized.
- Weber County man, 65 to 84, not admitted.
- Utah County man, 65 to 84, hospitalized.
- Salt Lake County man, 65 to 84, hospitalized.
- Salt Lake County man, ages 25 to 44, not admitted
- Cache County woman, 45-64, hospitalized.
- San Juan County woman, 65 to 84, not hospitalized.
- San Juan County man, 65 to 84, not admitted.
- Sanpete County woman, over 85, not admitted.