Utah reports more than 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses are given per day, and reports 17 more deaths

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Residents of Utah County are lining up to get their COVID-19 vaccination at a former Shopko store in Spanish Fork, Wednesday, January 27, 2021.

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More than 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered in Utah on Thursday, which also reported 17 more coronavirus-related deaths, according to the Department of Health.

Twelve of those deaths occurred before Jan. 15 and were only recently confirmed as COVID-19-related.

[Read more: How Utahns age 70 and older can get COVID-19 vaccine before a broader group is eligible starting March 1]

Vaccination doses reported in the past day / total vaccine doses administered • 20,180 / 382,881.

Number of Utahns that have received two doses • 89,948.

Cases reported in the past day • 1,216.

Deaths reported in the past day • 17.

Salt Lake County reported six deaths: a woman aged 45 to 64, two women and a man aged 65 to 84, and two women aged 85 or older.

Three people were killed in Utah County: a woman aged 65 to 84 and two women aged 85 or older.

Two Davis County residents died, a woman and a man aged 85 or older. And two men from Morgan County died – one aged 45 to 64 and another aged 85 or older.

Four counties each reported one death: a Box Elder County man aged 65 to 84, a Cache County man aged 85 or older, a Washington County man aged 65 to 84, and a Weber County woman aged 85 or older. older.

Hospital admissions reported in the past day • 349. That’s down 16 starting Thursday. Of those currently hospitalized, 117 are in intensive care – eight fewer than on Thursday.

Tests reported in the past day • 7,696.

Percentage of positive tests • 15.8%. That’s about the same as the seven-day average of 16.3%.

Totals so far • 352,489 cases; 1,728 dead; 13,755 hospital admissions; 2,061,926 people tested.

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