SALT LAKE CITY – The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah jumped 651 on Friday, and 17 more deaths have been reported, according to the Utah Department of Health.
Eight of those deaths occurred before Feb. 5, but were still under investigation by state medical exams, according to the health department.
The health department now estimates that there are 17,979 active cases of the disease in Utah. An additional 22,092 doses were administered as of Friday, according to the health department.
The moving seven-day average number of positive cases per day now stands at 694, according to the health department. The positive test rate per day for that period reported with the “people over people” method is now 12.3%. The positive test rate per day over seven days calculated with the “test over test” method is now 5.6%.
There are now 231 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Utah, including 94 in intensive care units, state data shows. About 73% of the beds in the Utah intensive care unit are occupied as of Friday, including about 77% of the intensive care beds in the state’s 16 referral hospitals. About 53% of Utah’s non-IC hospital beds were occupied on Friday.
A total of 682,536 vaccines have been administered in the state, up from 660,444 Thursday. Of those, 239,877 are second doses of the vaccine, health department data shows.
The new figures indicate an increase of 0.2% in positive cases since Thursday. Of the 2,194,674 people tested for COVID-19 to date in Utah, 16.9% tested positive for COVID-19. The total number of tests performed on Friday rose to 3,781,119, 15,599 more than Thursday. Of those, 5,498 were tests from people who had not previously been tested for COVID-19.
Friday’s totals give Utah 370,084 total confirmed cases, with 14,628 total hospitalizations and 1,907 total deaths from the disease. A total of 350,198 Utah COVID-19 cases are now estimated to have been recovered, state data shows.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox gave a pandemic update at a press conference Thursday.
This story is being updated.
