SALT LAKE CITY – According to the Utah Department of Health, COVID-19 cases in Utah increased by 300 on Tuesday, with an additional four deaths and 28,314 vaccinations.
The health department estimates there are 9,057 active cases of COVID-19 in Utah. The moving seven-day average number of positive cases per day is now 387, according to the health department. The positive test rate per day for that period, calculated with the “people over people” method, is now 7.1%. The positive test rate per day for that period, calculated with the “test over test” method, is now 3.4%.
There are currently 130 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Utah, including 48 in intensive care units, state data shows. About 65% of intensive care hospital beds are now occupied in Utah, including 69% of the ICU beds in the state’s 16 referral hospitals, state data shows. According to the health department, about 47% of non-ICU hospital beds in Utah are now occupied.
A total of 1,526,353 vaccines have been administered in the state, up from 1,498,039 Monday. In total, 994,402 Utahns have received at least one dose of vaccine, while 579,627 have been fully vaccinated. To date, a total of 1,734,950 vaccine doses, including prime and booster doses, have been shipped to Utah.
The new numbers indicate an increase of 0.1% in positive cases since Monday. Of the 2,417,211 people tested for COVID-19 so far in Utah, 16.1% tested positive for COVID-19. The number of tests conducted since the start of the pandemic now stands at 4,305,397, up from 10,662 since Monday. Of those, 4,018 were tests from people who had not previously been tested for COVID-19.
The four deaths reported Tuesday were:
- A Salt Lake County woman who was between the ages of 45 and 64 and was hospitalized when she died
- A Tooele County man who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was hospitalized when he died
- A Utah County man who was between the ages of 45 and 64 who was hospitalized when he died
- A Weber County man who was between the ages of 45 and 64 and was hospitalized when he died
Tuesday’s totals give Utah a total of 387,814 confirmed cases, with 15,656 total hospitalizations and 2,137 total deaths from the disease. According to the health department, an estimated 376,620 Utah COVID-19 cases are now considered recovered.
A press conference about COVID-19 is not yet on the agenda this week.
Utah’s pandemic “endgame” law, formally known as House Bill 294, requires all state and local health ordinances related to COVID-19 to end the day Utah hits the threshold in three key metrics: the State’s 14-Day Case is less than 191 per 100,000 people, the seven-day average of COVID-19 intensive care unit use is less than 15%, and 1,633,000 prime doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been assigned to Utah.
As of Tuesday, Utah will meet the threshold of the first two measurements. The 14-day number of cases is reported at 176.7 and the COVID-19 ICU use average for the past seven days is about 9.3%. As of last week, Utah had only been assigned 920,515 primary vaccine doses.
Prime doses refer to the first dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and the single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The primary dose allocation is updated only once a week, and according to health officials, the allocation is expected to reach the 1,633,000 threshold by the second or third week of May.
