SALT LAKE CITY – The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah increased by 383 on Tuesday, with another 15 deaths and 23,950 vaccinations, according to the Utah Department of Health.
Twelve of the deaths occurred before March 1, but are still being investigated by state medical investigators, the health department said.
Health officials now estimate there are 10,536 active cases of COVID-19 in Utah. According to the Department of Health, the current average number of positive cases per day of seven days is now at 443. The positive test rate per day for the period reported using the ‘people over people’ method is now 7.8%. The positive test rate per day of seven days, calculated using the ‘test over test’ method, is now 4%.
There are 131 patients currently COVID-19 hospitalized in Utah, including 49 in intensive care. About 64% of the beds for guard units in Utah are now occupied, including about 66% of the ICU beds in the state’s 16 referral hospitals. About 47% of non-ICU hospital beds are now occupied, state data shows.
A total of 1,178,728 doses of vaccine were administered in the state, compared to 1,154,778 on Monday. A total of 780,081 Utahns have now received at least one vaccine dose, and 429,306 have been fully vaccinated, according to data from the Department of Health. A total of 1,323,050 doses of vaccines have been sent to Utah so far.
The new numbers point to a 0.1% increase in positive cases since Monday. Of the 2,340,071 people tested so far for COVID-19 in Utah, 16.3% tested positive for the disease. The total number of tests carried out since the start of the pandemic is now 4,124,865, up 15,624 since Monday. Of those, 6,022 were tests of people who had not been tested for COVID-19 before, the health department said.
The 15 deaths reported on Tuesday were:
- A Cache County man who was between 45 and 64 years old and was admitted to hospital when he died
- A Davis County man who was between 65 and 84 years old and a resident of a long-term care facility
- Two Davis County men over the age of 85 who were residents of long-term care facilities
- A Garfield County man over the age of 85 who was a resident of a long-term care facility
- Two women in Salt Lake County who were between 65 and 84 and residents of long-term care facilities
- A Salt Lake County man who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was not hospitalized when he died
- Two women in Salt Lake County who were between 65 and 84 years old and who were not hospitalized when they died
- A woman in Utah County who was between 65 and 84 years old and a resident of a long-term care facility
- A woman in Utah County who was over 85 and a resident of a long-term care facility
- A Utah County man over the age of 85 who was not hospitalized when he died
- A Utah County man who was between 45 and 64 years old and was not admitted to the hospital when he died
- A Weber County woman who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and a resident of a long-term care facility
The total Tuesday total gives Utah 382,171 total confirmed cases, with 15,323 total hospitalizations and 2,077 total deaths due to the disease. A total of 369,558 Utah COVID-19 cases are now considered recovery, according to the Department of Health.
The Utah government, Spencer Cox and Lieutenant General Deidre Henderson, will deliver an update on the COVID-19 pandemic at 11 a.m. Thursday.