SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah Department of Health on Saturday reported another 686 cases that tested COVID-19 in the state, as well as 22 deaths due to the disease and 19,757 additional vaccine doses.
Nineteen of the deaths occurred before February 6, officials said, but are still being investigated. Overall, that brings Utah to 370,770 total confirmed cases, 1,929 deaths and 702,293 doses of vaccinations since the pandemic nearly a year ago.
Of the vaccines administered, 249,398 were second doses to date.
There are currently 223 Utahns admitted to the hospital due to COVID-19, including 89 in intensive care. The new case numbers from Saturday come across 17,724 more test results. A total of 3,798,843 tests have now been conducted nationwide on approximately 2,201,426 different people.
Over the past week, the state has averaged 681 cases per day and a positive test rate of 5.5%.
The deaths reported Saturday included 12 men:
- A Beaver County resident over the age of 85 who was hospitalized when he died
- A Beaver County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 admitted to the hospital
- A Davis County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 who was not admitted to the hospital when he died
- A Emery County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 admitted to the hospital
- A Salt Lake County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 who has not been hospitalized
- A Salt Lake County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 admitted to the hospital
- A Utah County resident over the age of 85 living in a long-term care facility
- A Washington County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 who has not been hospitalized
- A Washington County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 living in a long-term care facility
- A Washington County resident over the age of 85 who has not been hospitalized
- A 45-year-old Weber County resident living in a long-term care facility
- A Weber County resident between the ages of 45 and 64 who was not admitted to the hospital
It also included ten women:
- A Cache County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 who lived in a long-term care facility
- An Emery County resident over the age of 85 who was not admitted to the hospital when she died
- Four Salt Lake County residents between the ages of 65 and 84 lived in long-term care facilities
- A Salt Lake County resident between the ages of 65 and 84 who was not hospitalized
- A Utah resident between the ages of 65 and 84 living in a long-term care facility
- A Utah resident between the ages of 65 and 84, who was hospitalized when she died
- A Washington County resident over the age of 85 living in a long-term care facility
The Department of Health data shows that there are currently 17 long-term care facilities in Utah with active outbreaks among their residents.
There is no coronavirus news conference of state leaders scheduled for the weekend. On Thursday, Governor Spencer Cox announced that Utahs 16 years and older, with certain comorbidities, would be immediately eligible for the coronavirus vaccine. The full list of comorbidities that make a person eligible for the vaccine is available at coronavirus.utah.gov/vaccine-distribution/#eligibility.
Utah is currently administering Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which require two doses, while Cox expects Johnson & Johnson vaccine to arrive in Utah next week also.