In Utah, more than 20,000 doses of COVID-19 are given daily, and another 17 deaths have been reported

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah residents stand in line to get their COVID-19 vaccination at a former Shopko store in Spanish Fork, on Wednesday, January 27, 2021.

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According to the Department of Health, more than 20,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered in Utah on Thursday, which also reported another 17 coronavirus-related deaths.

Twelve of the deaths occurred before January 15 and were only recently confirmed as COVID-19.

[Read more: How Utahns age 70 and older can get COVID-19 vaccine before a broader group is eligible starting March 1]

Vaccination doses reported in the past day / total vaccine doses administered • 20,180 / 382,881.

Number of Utahns receiving two doses • 89,948.

Cases reported in the past day • 1 216.

Deaths reported in the past day • 17.

Salt Lake County reported six deaths: a woman aged 45 to 64, two women and a man aged 65 to 84 and two women aged 85 or older.

There were three deaths in Utah County – one woman aged 65 to 84 and two women aged 85 or older.

Two Davis County residents are dead, a woman and a man who are both 85 years or older. And two Morgan County men were killed – one aged 45 to 64 and another aged 85 or older.

Four counties each reported one death – a Box Elder County man 65 to 84, a Cache 85 man or older, a Washington County man 65 to 84 and a Weber 85 woman or older.

Hospitalizations reported in the past day • 349. It is under 16 from Thursday. Of those currently hospitalized, 117 are in intensive care units – eight fewer than on Thursday.

Tests reported in the past day • 7,696.

Percentage of positive tests • 15.8%. This is about the same as the seven day average of 16.3%.

Total to date • 352,489 cases; 1,728 deaths; 13,755 hospitalizations; 2,061,926 people tested.

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