SALT LAKE CITY – Utah’s COVID-19 cases increased by 514 on Monday, with two more deaths, according to the Utah Department of Health.
There are now an estimated 30,559 active cases of the disease in Utah. According to the health department, the average number of positive cases of seven days a day is now at 1,133. The positive test rate per day for that period is now 15.4%.
There are 308 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Utah, including 112 in intensive care. About 73% of the hospital beds in Utah’s intensive care units are now filled, including about 79% of the ICU beds in the 16 referral hospitals in the state, state data shows. About 50% of Utah’s non-ICU hospital beds were occupied Monday.
A total of 417,024 vaccines were administered in the state, compared to 413,937 on Sunday. Of these, 103,806 are second doses of the vaccine, according to state data.
The new numbers point to a 0.1% increase in positive cases since Sunday. Of the 2079,688 people tested so far for COVID-19 in Utah, 17.1% tested positive for the disease. The state has conducted 3,480,503 tests since the start of the pandemic, an increase of 7,216 since Sunday. Of those, 3,653 were tests of people who had not been tested for COVID-19 before, according to the Department of Health.
One of the deaths reported Monday was a Washington County man who was between 65 and 84 and was hospitalized when he died. The other dead was a woman in Utah County who was between 45 and 64 years old and was hospitalized when she died.
The total Monday’s total number of cases is 355122 confirmed Utah, with 13,889 hospitalizations and 1,738 total deaths due to the disease. An estimated 322,825 cases in Utah COVID-19 are now considered recovery, the Department of Health reported.
There is no COVID-19 news conference scheduled for Monday. Utah officials typically present at news conferences on Wednesdays or Thursdays once a week.
This story will be updated.
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Test results now contain data from PCR tests and antigen tests. Positive COVID-19 test results are reported to the health department immediately after confirmation, but negative test results may not be reported 24 to 72 hours.
The total number of cases reported each day by the Utah Department of Health includes all cases of COVID-19 since the outbreak of Utah, including those currently infected, those recovering from the disease, and those who have died.
Recovered cases are defined as anyone who was diagnosed with COVID-19 three or more weeks ago and did not die.
Reference hospitals are the 16 Utah hospitals that can provide the best COVID-19 health care.
According to the Department of Health, deaths usually occurred two to seven days before they were reported. Some deaths can come back even further, especially if the person is from Utah but died in another state.
According to the Department of Health, as well as likely COVID-19 deaths are confirmed as defined by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. The death rates could change as case investigations are completed.
For deaths reported as COVID-19 deaths, the person would not have died if they had not had COVID-19, according to the Department of Health.
Data included in this story primarily reflects the state of Utah as a whole. Visit the website of your local health district for more localized data.
More information on Utah’s health education levels is available at coronavirus.utah.gov/utah-health-guidance-levels.
Information comes from the Utah Department of Health and coronavirus.utah.gov/case-counts. For more information about how the Utah Department of Health compiles and reports COVID-19 data, visit coronavirus.utah.gov/case-counts and browse to the “Data Notes” section at the bottom of the page.