Six of the deaths occurred before March 1.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Aaron Dickey, 91, watches his wife Marion Dickey, 83, while the two received their second COVID-19 vaccine from the County Department of Health nurse Utah, Janeen Hamel, at Spanish Fork, March 25, 2021.
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The number of new coronavirus cases reported on Saturday remained below 500 again, a welcome sign in the state’s fight to control the disease.
But, attenuating the good news, hospitalizations for COVID-19 and intensive care unit patients increased slightly, according to data from the Utah Department of Health.
UDOH also reported 10 more deaths from the coronavirus. Six of these occurred before March 1 and it was only recently confirmed that they were caused by COVID-19.
Dose of vaccines administered the day before / total doses administered • 27,583 / 1,289,691.
Fully vaccinated Utahns • 470,905.
Cases reported last day • 460.
Deaths reported last day • 10.
Salt Lake County reported three deaths: a 45- to 64-year-old man and an 85-year-old man and woman.
There were two deaths in Davis County: a man aged 45 to 64 and a woman aged over 85.
Two Utah County residents died: two women both over the age of 85.
Three counties reported a single death: a 45- to 64-year-old woman in Weber County; a 45-64-year-old man in Beaver County; and a 65-84-year-old man in Washington County.
Hospitalizations reported last day • 137. This is until seven on Friday. Of those currently hospitalized, 56 are in intensive care units, six more than on Friday.
Tests reported last day • 6,048 people were tested for the first time. A total of 14,289 people were tested.
Percentage of positive tests • According to the original method of the state, the rate is 7.6%. This is above the seven-day average of 7.4%.
His new method counts all test results, including repeated tests from the same individual. Saturday’s rate now stands at 3.2%, below the seven-day average of 3.7%.
[Read more: Utah is changing how it measures the rate of positive COVID-19 tests. Here’s what that means.]
Total so far • 384,173 cases; 2,101 dead; 15,441 hospitalizations; 2,368,017 people tested.