Utah reports giving more than 20,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine in one day and reports 17 more deaths

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(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah County residents line up to get the COVID-19 vaccine at a former Shopko store in Spanish Fork on Wednesday, January 27, 2021.

| February 5, 2021, 8:12 p.m.

| Updated: February 6, 2021, 12:30 p.m.

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More than 20,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered Thursday in Utah on Thursday, according to the Department of Health, which also reported 17 more coronavirus-related deaths.

Twelve of these deaths occurred before January 15 and were only recently confirmed as COVID-19 related.

[Read more: How Utahns age 70 and older can get COVID-19 vaccine before a broader group is eligible starting March 1]

Vaccination dose reported on the last day / total vaccine dose administered • 20,180 / 382,881.

Number of Utahns who have received two doses • 89,948.

Cases reported last day • 1,216.

Deaths reported last day • 17.

Salt Lake County reported six deaths: a woman aged 45 to 64, two women and a man aged 65 to 84, and two women aged 85 or older.

There were three deaths in Utah County: one woman aged 65 to 84 and two women aged 85 or older.

Two Davis County residents, a woman and a man aged 85 or older, were killed. And two men from Morgan County died, one aged 45 to 64 and another aged 85 or over.

Four counties reported one death each: a Box Elder County man aged 65 to 84, a Cache County man aged 85 or over, a Washington County man aged 65 to 84, and a County woman Weber aged 85 or over.

Hospitalizations reported last day • 349. This has gone down 16 from Thursday. Of those currently hospitalized, 117 are in intensive care units, eight fewer than on Thursday.

Tests reported last day • 7,696.

Percentage of positive tests • 15.8%. It is roughly the same as the seven-day average of 16.3%.

Total so far • 352,489 cases; 1,728 dead; 13,755 hospitalizations; 2,061,926 people tested.

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