SALT LAKE CITY – The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah rose 560 on Tuesday, with 13 more deaths and 20,737 vaccinations, according to the Utah Department of Health.
Nine of the deaths occurred before Feb. 1, but were still under investigation by the medical examiner’s office in Utah, the health department said.
The state now estimates that there are 13,682 active cases of COVID-19 in Utah. The moving seven-day average number of positive cases per day now stands at 529, according to the health department. The positive test rate per day for that period reported with the “people over people” method is now 8.8%. The positive test percentage per seven-day daily mean, calculated with the “test over test” method, is now 4.2%.
There are now 187 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Utah, including 73 in intensive care units, state data shows. About 66% of all intensive care beds in Utah are now occupied, including about 67% of the intensive care beds in the state’s 16 referral hospitals. About 48% of all non-ICU hospital beds in the state of Utah are now occupied, state data shows.
A total of 878,487 vaccines were administered in the state, compared to 857,750 on Monday. According to the health department, a total of 573,525 Utahns have now received at least one dose of the vaccine, while 319,127 have now been fully vaccinated. To date, a total of 1,070,975 vaccine doses have been shipped to Utah.
The new numbers indicate an increase of 0.1% in positive cases since Monday. Of the 2,257,389 people tested for COVID-19 so far in Utah, 16.7% tested positive for COVID-19. The total number of tests conducted since the start of the pandemic is now 3,934,278, up from 16,450 since Monday, according to health officials. Of those, 6,185 were tests from people who had not previously been tested for COVID-19.
The 13 deaths reported on Tuesday were:
- A Juab County woman who was between the ages of 45 and 64 and was not hospitalized when she died
- Two women in Salt Lake County who were over 85 and lived in long-term care facilities
- A Salt Lake County man who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and lived in a long-term care facility
- A Salt Lake County man who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was not hospitalized when he died
- A Salt Lake County man aged between 65 and 84 who was hospitalized when he died
- A Salt Lake County boy who was between 1 and 14 years old and was hospitalized when he died
- A Utah County man who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was not hospitalized when he died
- A Utah County man over the age of 85 who was not hospitalized when he died at the time of death
- A Washington County man who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and lived in a long-term care facility
- A Washington County man over the age of 85 lived in a long-term care facility
- A Weber 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 45 and 64 and lived in a long-term care facility
Health officials said they had no further information about the boy’s death in Salt Lake County due to health privacy laws, but said “this is a tragic reminder that we need to remain vigilant about public health.”
Health department data shows that fewer than five deaths have been reported among the age group 1-14 in Utah. There are also less than five deaths reported in the 0-1 year age group and only five deaths in the 15-24 age group.
Tuesday’s totals give Utah 375,669 total confirmed cases, with 14,956 total hospitalizations and 1,990 total deaths from the disease. According to state data, a total of 359,997 Utah COVID-19 cases are now considered recovered.
The Utah government, Spencer Cox, will provide a COVID-19 pandemic update at a press conference Thursday at 11 a.m.
