Salt Lake County is beginning to schedule vaccine appointments for anyone 16 years of age or older.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Nurse Ashley Hafer fills syringes with the Modern Vaccine for People lined up on Thursday, March 18, 2021, while Utah Film Studios leases its space to the Summit County Health Department as at COVID -19 vaccination station.
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After a slow Sunday, when only 4,144 Utahns were tested for COVID-19, the state reported its lowest number of new cases in ten months, only 159. And no new deaths were added to the total. the state.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – and confirmed by the Utah Department of Health – Utah has registered its first case of the P.1 variant, or Brazilian, coronavirus. This variant is thought to be more easily transmitted, more severe, and possibly more resistant to current vaccines. No information has been released about Utahn who hired him.
On Monday, Salt Lake County became the first in the state to start scheduling appointments for anyone 16 and older, and was doing a quick business in setting up inoculations.
At 9 a.m., the county health department opened 46,760 appointments for April; by 5 p.m., he had booked 18,590. So there are more than 28,000 left, with April 13 the first date available.
(The Salt Lake County Department of Health set the number of appointments based on the number of vaccines it expects to have, not the capacity of its sites).
Last week, Gov. Spencer Cox announced that as of Wednesday, anyone 16 years of age or older will be eligible to receive a vaccine against COVID-19. They are now available to anyone 50 years of age or older and to some people 16 and older if they had pre-existing conditions.
Other counties in the state are expected to begin scheduling their new round of appointments on Wednesday.
Dose of vaccines administered last day / total doses administered • 2,496 / 1,154,778.
Fully vaccinated Utahns • 419,623.
Cases reported last day • 159.
Deaths reported last day • Cap.
Hospitalizations reported last day • 147. This has not changed with respect to Sunday. Of those currently hospitalized, 52 are in intensive care units, as is Sunday.
Tests reported last day • 2,333 people were tested for the first time. A total of 4,144 people were tested.
Percentage of positive tests • According to the original method of the state, the rate is 6.8%. This is below the seven-day average of 8%.
His new method counts all test results, including repeated tests from the same individual. Monday’s rate now stands at 3.8%, slightly below the seven-day average of 4.1%.
Total so far • 381,788 cases; 2,062 dead; 15,293 hospitalizations; 2,334,049 people tested.