SALT LAKE CITY – The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah increased by 422 on Friday, with another six deaths and another 40,049 vaccinations, according to the Utah Department of Health.
Four of the deaths occurred before March 1, but were still being investigated by medical investigators, the health department said.
According to the Department of Health, the moving average seven-day number of positive cases per day is now at 407. The positive test rate per day for the period reported using the “people over people” method is now 6.9%. The positive test rate per day of seven days, calculated using the ‘test over test’ method, is now 3.4%.
There are currently 138 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Utah, including 46 in intensive care. About 64% of all intensive care units in Utah are occupied as of Friday, including about 67% of the ICU beds in the state’s 16 referral hospitals, according to the Department of Health. About 53% of the non-ICU hospital beds in Utah are now occupied.
A total of 1,450,263 doses of vaccine were administered in the state, compared to 1,410,214 on Thursday. A total of 948,468 Utahns have now received at least one dose of the vaccine, while 541,293 have now been fully vaccinated. A total of 1,691,460 doses of vaccines have now been delivered to Utah, state data shows.
The new numbers point to a 0.1% increase in positive cases since Thursday. Of the 2,400,410 people tested so far for COVID-19 in Utah, 16.1% tested positive for COVID-19. The number of tests since the pandemic began has increased to 4,268,946, up from 14,258 since Thursday. Of these, 5,761 were tests of people who had not previously been tested for COVID-19, according to state data.
The six deaths reported on Friday were:
- A Davis County woman between the ages of 65 and 84 and a resident of a long-term care facility
- A Millard County woman who was between 65 and 84 years old and was hospitalized when she died
- A Salt Lake County man who was between 65 and 84 years old and was hospitalized when he died
- A Salt Lake County woman who was between 65 and 84 years old and was hospitalized when she died
- A woman in Utah County who was over 85 and a resident of a long-term care facility
- A Weber County man over the age of 85 who was a resident of a long-term care facility
Friday’s total gives 386,550 total confirmed cases in Utah, with 15,573 total hospitalizations and 2,131 total deaths due to the disease.
Bill 294, 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 the 14-day- state interest rate is less than 191 per 100,000 people. , the average of seven days of use of the COVID-19 intensive care unit is below 15%, and 1,633,000 prime doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were allocated to Utah.
The state now quotes the criterion in the first and second criterion. The 14-day case is 180.3 as of Friday and the average use of Utah’s COVID-19 ICU is about 10.3%, according to data from the Department of Health. A total of 920,515 doses of the first vaccine were allocated to Utah, according to the Department of Health.
Utah leaders provided an update to the COVID-19 at a news conference on Thursday.
