SALT LAKE CITY – According to the Utah Department of Health, COVID-19 cases in Utah jumped 699 on Wednesday, with five additional deaths and 27,654 more vaccinations.
Four of the deaths occurred before Feb. 17, but were still under investigation by the medical examiner’s office, the health department said.
The health department now estimates that there are 11,550 active cases of COVID-19 in Utah. The rolling seven-day average number of positive cases per day now stands at 499, 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 180 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Utah, including 63 in intensive care units, state data shows. About 73% of the beds in the Utah intensive care unit are now occupied, including about 75% of the intensive care beds in the state’s 16 referral hospitals. About 52% of non-IC hospital beds are now occupied in Utah, state data shows.
A total of 1,054,727 vaccine doses have been administered in the state, up from 1,027,073 on Tuesday. In total, 696,178 Utahns have received at least one dose of vaccine and 384,054 have been fully vaccinated. On Wednesday, a total of 1,250,160 vaccine doses had been shipped to Utah.
The new numbers indicate an increase of 0.2% in positive cases since Tuesday. Of the 2,307,238 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 4,049,577, up from 19,892 since Tuesday. Of those, there were 8,666 tests of people who had not previously been tested for COVID-19, the health department said.
The five deaths reported Wednesday were:
- A Salt Lake County woman over the age of 85 living in a long-term care facility
- A San Juan County man who was between the ages of 45 and 64 and lived in a long-term care facility
- A woman in Utah County who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and lived in a long-term care facility
- A Washington County man who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and lived in a long-term care facility
- A woman from Weber County who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and lived in a long-term care facility
Wednesday’s totals give Utah a total of 379,780 confirmed cases, with 15,198 total hospitalizations and 2,037 total deaths from the disease. According to the health department, a total of 366,193 Utah COVID-19 cases are now being recovered.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox will provide a pandemic update Thursday at 10 a.m. during its monthly press conference with PBS Utah.