SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah Department of Health on Sunday reported 396 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state, along with another six deaths due to the disease and another 15,861 vaccines against it.
The state now calculates an average of 507 new cases per day and a positive test rate of 4.12% over the past week.
Currently, 167 Utahns are reportedly hospitalized due to COVID-19, including 63 in intensive care. It is reported that 7 397 tests were done.
Overall, the state has now confirmed 378,379 COVID-19 cases and conducted 4,007,693 tests. It administered 1,009,029 vaccines – surpassing the 1 million mark, as Governor Spencer Cox promised on Saturday – and lost 2,027 residents to the virus.
“The state of Utah has reached a major milestone today in the fight against COVID-19. More than one million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered into the state,” the Department of Health said in a statement. “For those of you who have already received your shots, thank you. For the rest of you, please take the vaccine if it is your turn. This is how we get our lives back.”
Of the more than one million vaccines administered, 365,176 Utahns have now been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Full vaccination requires one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine or two doses of Moderna or Pfizer vaccine.
The six deaths reported on Sunday were from:
- A Davis County man over the age of 85 who was a resident of a long-term care facility
- A Salt Lake County man between the ages of 45 and 64 who was hospitalized when he died
- A woman in Utah County, aged 65 to 84, who was a resident of a long-term care facility
- A 65-year-old man in Utah County who was not admitted to the hospital when he died
- Two Utah County men between 45 and 64 years old admitted to hospital
There is no coronavirus news conference of state leaders scheduled for the weekend. Cox is holding its regular weekly news conference later this week; the conference usually takes place on Thursdays.