This is the second day in a row with only one single death, but Utah’s total inches are closer to 2,000.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Amanda Bayly gives Jay Gaisford a Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, at TOSH – The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital in Murray. Government Spencer Cox announced Thursday that the age of Utahns 50 and older could start making appointments this coming Monday to get their COVID-19 vaccinations, Cox said younger Utahns adults with certain health conditions such as diabetes, type 1 or type 2, obesity with A BMI index of 30 or higher, and anyone with chronic kidney disease will also be eligible.
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The Utah Department of Health reported only one death due to COVID-19 in the state for the second day in a row.
The state also reported only 259 new cases of coronavirus, the least in six months. But the number of tests on Sunday was also low (only about 5,500), as was the number of people receiving vaccine doses (slightly more than 2,000).
The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah has passed 375,000, and the number of Utahs who have been fully vaccinated is now more than 310,000.
Vaccine doses administered in the past day / total doses administered • 2,087 / 857,750.
Utahns fully vaccinated • 310,327.
Cases reported in the past day • 259.
Deaths reported in the past day • One, a Washington County man between the ages of 65 and 84.
Hospitalizations reported in the past day • 193. These are two of Sunday. Of those currently admitted to the hospital, 73 are in intensive care units – unchanged from Sunday.
Tests reported in the past day • 3,083 people were tested for the first time. A total of 5,530 people were tested.
Percentage of positive tests • According to the state’s original method, the rate is 8.4%. This is slightly lower than the seven day average of 9.06%.
The new method counts all test results, including repeated tests of the same individual. Monday’s rate is now at 4.7%, slightly higher than the seven-day average of 4.38%.
[Read more: Utah is changing how it measures the rate of positive COVID-19 tests. Here’s what that means.]
Total to date • 375 109 sake; 1,977 deaths; 14,913 hospitalizations; 2 251 204 people were tested.