SALT LAKE CITY – According to the Utah Department of Health, COVID-19 cases in Utah jumped 481 on Tuesday, with five additional deaths and 16,373 vaccinations.
The health department estimates that there are now 11,668 active COVID-19 cases in Utah. The moving seven-day average number of positive cases per day now stands at 492, according to the health department. The positive test rate per day for that period reported with the “people over people” method is now 8.3%. The positive test rate per day over seven days calculated with the “test over test” method is now 4.1%.
There are currently 171 COVID-19 patients in the Utah hospital, including 55 in intensive care units, state data shows. According to the health department, about 67% of the beds in the Utah intensive care unit are now occupied, including 68% of the ICU beds in the state’s 16 referral hospitals. About 46% of non-IC hospital beds are now occupied in Utah.
A total of 1,027,073 vaccine doses have been administered in the state, up from 1,010,700 on Monday. In total, 679,409 Utahns have now received at least one dose of vaccine and 372,564 have been fully vaccinated. A total of 1,213,260 vaccine doses have been delivered to Utah, the health department reports.
The new numbers indicate an increase of 0.1% in positive cases since Monday. Of the 2,298,572 people tested for COVID-19 so far in Utah, 16.5% have tested positive for the disease. The total number of tests conducted since the start of the pandemic is now 4,029,685, up from 15,610 since Monday. Of those, 5,476 were tests from people who had not previously been tested for COVID-19, according to the health department.
The five deaths reported Tuesday include:
- A Salt Lake County woman who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was hospitalized when she died
- A Summit County man over the age of 85 who was not hospitalized when he died
- A Utah County woman who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was not hospitalized when she died
- A Washington County man over the age of 85 living in a long-term care facility
- A Washington County man aged between 65 and 84 lived in a long-term care facility
Tuesday’s totals give Utah 379,081 total confirmed cases, with 15,167 total hospitalizations and 2,032 total deaths from the disease. According to the health department, a total of 365,381 Utah COVID-19 cases are now considered recovered.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox will provide a pandemic update Thursday at 10 a.m. during its monthly press conference with PBS Utah.
