SALT LAKE CITY – According to the Utah Department of Health, COVID-19 cases in Utah jumped 487 on Tuesday, with nine additional deaths and 20,268 more vaccinations.
Two of those deaths occurred before Feb. 9, but were still under investigation by the medical examiner’s office, the health department said. There are now an estimated 16,293 active cases of COVID-19 in Utah, state data shows.
The moving seven-day average number of positive cases per day now stands at 603, according to the health department. The positive test rate per day for that period reported with the “people over people” method is now 10.5%. The positive test rate per day over seven days calculated with the “test over test” method is now 4.9%.
There are currently 213 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Utah, including 92 in intensive care units, state data show. About 67% of all intensive care beds in Utah were occupied on Tuesday, including about 71% 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 741,297 vaccines have been administered in the state, up from 721,029 on Monday. Of these, 263,173 are second doses of the vaccine.
The new numbers indicate an increase of 0.1% in positive cases since Monday. Of the 2,214,506 people tested for COVID-19 so far in Utah, 16.8% tested positive for COVID-19. The number of tests conducted since the start of the pandemic is now 3,828,322, up from 14,540 since Monday. Of those, 5,582 are tests of people who had not previously been tested for COVID-19, according to state data.
The nine deaths reported Tuesday include:
- A Davis County man who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was not hospitalized when he died
- A Salt Lake County woman over the age of 85 living in a long-term care facility
- A Salt Lake County woman who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was hospitalized when she died
- A Summit County man who was between the ages of 45 and 64 and was hospitalized when he died
- A man from Tooele County who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was hospitalized when he died
- A Utah County man over the age of 85 living in a long-term care facility
- A Utah County man who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was hospitalized when he died
- A Washington County man who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was hospitalized when he died
- A woman from Weber County who was between the ages of 45 and 64 and was hospitalized when she died
Tuesday’s totals give Utah 371,979 total confirmed cases, with 14,753 total hospitalizations and 1,949 total deaths from the disease. An estimated 353,737 Utah COVID-19 cases are now considered recovered, the health department reports.
The Utah government, Spencer Cox, is scheduled to release its weekly pandemic update Thursday at 11 a.m., according to his office.
