SALT CITY – The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah increased by 173 on Monday, with another death and 2,326 vaccinations, according to the Utah Department of Health.
According to the Department of Health, there are an estimated 9,242 active COVID-19 cases in Utah. According to the Department of Health, the current average number of seven-day positive cases per day is now 397. The positive test rate per day for the period reported using the ‘people-on-people’ method is now 7.1%. The positive test rate per day of seven days, calculated using the ‘test over test’ method, is now 3.5%.
There are now 121 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Utah, including 47 in intensive care. About 64% of all hospital beds in the Utah intensive care unit are now occupied, including about 67% of the ICU beds in the state’s 16 referral hospitals, state data shows. About 47% of non-ICU hospital beds are now inhabited in Utah, state data shows.
A total of 1,498,039 vaccine doses were administered in the state, compared to 1,495,713 on Sunday. A total of 976,434 Utahns received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 565,539 are now considered fully vaccinated. A total of 1,734,950 doses of vaccine have been sent to Utah so far.
The new numbers point to a 0.04% increase in positive cases since Sunday. Of the 2,413,193 people tested so far for COVID-19 in Utah, 16.1% tested positive for COVID-19. The number of tests conducted during the pandemic increased to 4,294,735, an increase of 3,778 since Sunday. Of these, 2111 were tests of people not previously tested for COVID-19.
The death reported Monday was a woman in Utah County who was between 65 and 84 years old and was admitted to the hospital when she died, according to the Department of Health.
The total Monday’s total number of cases is 387,514 in Utah, with 15,625 hospitalizations and 2,113 total deaths due to the disease. According to the Department of Health, an estimated 376,139 cases in Utah COVID-19 are considered recovery.
Bill 294 of Utah House, also known as the COVID-19 bill “endgame” of the state, requires that all state and local health orders in Utah related to the pandemic be terminated on the day that the 14-day case rate of the state less than 191 100,000 people, the average use of the intensive care unit COVID-19 during seven days is less than 15% and 1,633,000 first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were allocated to Utah .
From Monday, the state will reach the threshold in the first two criteria. The 14-day case rate average is 179.4, and the seven-day COVID-19 ICU average is about 9.4%, according to state data. However, according to health officials, Utah was given 920,515 first doses of the vaccine alone last week. According to the health department, the state is expected to reach 1 633 000 primary doses allocated in the second or third week of May.
A COVID-19 news conference has not yet been scheduled for this week.