SALT LAKE CITY – About a third of the population eligible for vaccines in Utah is now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, while just over half of Utahns are eligible to receive at least one dose of the vaccine , the Utah Department of Health reported Monday.
According to the Department of Health, Utah’s number of COVID-19 cases increased by 200 on Monday, with two more deaths and 1,326 vaccinations.
A total of 1,898,857 vaccine doses were administered in the state, compared to 18,97,531 on Sunday. A total of 1,191,770 Utahns, or about 37.2% of the state’s population, have now received at least one vaccine dose, while 791,734, about 24.7% of the total state’s population, have been fully vaccinated. About 50.1% of all Utahns ages 16 and older now receive at least one vaccine dose, according to the Department of Health. About 33.3% of Utahns aged 16 and older are now fully vaccinated, the health department reports.
A total of 2,168,470 vaccine doses have been sent to the state so far, according to data from the Department of Health.
The Department of Health estimates that there are 8388 active COVID-19 cases in Utah on Monday. According to the Department of Health, the average number of positive cases of seven days per day is now 382. The positive test rate per day for the period calculated using the “people over people” method is now 6.9%. The positive test rate per day for the period calculated using the “test over test” method is now 3.5%.
There are currently 138 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Utah, including 54 in intensive care. About 66% of all Utah intensive care units are now occupied, including about 69% of the ICU beds in the 16 referral hospitals in the state. About 51% of the non-ICU hospital beds in Utah were occupied on Monday, according to state data.
The new figures point to a 0.05% increase in positive cases since Sunday. Of the 2,433,089 people tested so far for COVID-19 in Utah, 15.8% tested positive for COVID-19. The number of tests conducted since the start of the pandemic in Utah is now 4,480,612, up 5,021 since Sunday. Of these, 2,695 were tests of people who had not been previously tested for the disease.
The two deaths reported Monday were both from Weber County. One was a man between 45 and 64 years old and was admitted to hospital when he died, and the second was a woman between 45 and 64 years old and a resident of a long-term care facility.
The total Monday’s total confirmed cases in Utah are 392,957, with 15,922 total hospitalizations and 2,166 total deaths due to the disease. An estimated 382,253 cases in Utah COVID-19 are now considered recovery, according to the Department of Health.
The Utah Endgame Pandemic Bill, formally known as HB294, requires all COVID-19 state and local health orders to end on the day Utah reaches the threshold in three key statistics: the 14-day rate of the state is less than 191 per 100,000 people, the seven-day average of using the intensive care unit COVID-19 is below 15%, and 1,633,000 prime doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are awarded to Utah.
As of Monday, Utah meets HB294’s thresholds for the first two stats. The COVID-19 business rate per 100,000 people now stands at 170.2 and the COVID-19 ICU usage rate over the past seven days is now 11.9%.
Only 1,335,645 primary doses were allocated to Utah as of Monday, according to the Department of Health. The first doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccination cycles, as well as the only dose of the Johnson & Johnson product, are considered primary doses. The health officials are expected to reach the standard of 1 633 000 prime doses by the second or third week of May.
The Utah government, Spencer Cox and Lieutenant General Deidre Henderson, will deliver an update of the COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday, 11 a.m. Thursday at 11 p.m.
