Last day there were three deaths and 12 more before March 1st.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Nate Marine receives the first vaccination against COVID-19 from Dr. Emil Chuang at Utah Film Studios in Park City on Thursday, March 18, 2021.
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As the number of Utahns vaccinated against COVID-19 continues to increase (nearly 1.2 million doses have been administered and about 430,000 have been vaccinated), the number of deaths also increases.
The Utah Department of Health reported 15 more deaths from the coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the total to 2,077. A dozen of these deaths occurred before March 1 and it was only recently confirmed that they were related to COVID-19.
Dose of vaccines administered last day / total doses administered • 23,950 / 1,178,728.
Fully vaccinated Utahns • 429,306.
Cases reported last day • 383.
Deaths reported last day • 15.
Salt Lake County reported five deaths: one man and four women, all between the ages of 65 and 84.
There were four deaths in Utah County: a man aged 45 to 64, a woman aged 65 to 84 and a man and woman aged over 85.
Three Davis County residents were killed: a 65- to 84-year-old man and two 85-year-old men.
And three counties reported one death each: a 45- to 64-year-old man in Cache County; a man over 85 in Garfield County; and a 65- to 84-year-old woman in Weber County.
Hospitalizations reported last day • 131. This has gone down 16 from Monday. Of those currently hospitalized, 49 are in intensive care units, three fewer than on Monday.
Tests reported last day • 6,022 people were tested for the first time. A total of 15,624 people were tested.
Percentage of positive tests • According to the original method of the state, the rate is 6.4%. This is below the seven-day average of 7.8%.
The new state method counts all test results, including repeated tests by the same individual. Tuesday’s rate is now 2.5%, lower than the seven-day average of 4%.
[Read more: Utah is changing how it measures the rate of positive COVID-19 tests. Here’s what that means.]
Total so far • 382,171 cases; 2,077 dead; 15,323 hospitalizations; 2,340,071 people were tested.