Another two Utahns die from the coronavirus, and another 200 cases are reported.
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) People are vouching for the vaccine on Thursday, March 18, 2021, while Utah Film Studios in Park City are lending their space to the Summit County Health Department as a drive-by vaccination station COVID-19.
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The number of Utahns fully vaccinated against COVID-19 rises to 800,000. Just over a third of the eligible population (34.4%) of residents 16 years and older received either doses of Moderna or Pfizer vaccines or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
And it was a typical slow Sunday with relatively few tests (just over 5,000), relatively few new cases (200) and relatively few vaccinations (just over 1,300). According to the Utah Department of Health, two more Utahs died from the coronavirus, bringing the total death toll from COVID-19 to 2,166.
Vaccine doses administered in the past day / total doses administered • 1 326/1 898 857.
Utahns fully vaccinated • 791,734.
Cases reported in the past day • 200.
Deaths reported in the past day • Two, both in Weber County – a man and a woman, each between 45 and 64 years old.
Tests reported in the past day • 2,695 people were tested for the first time. A total of 5,021 people were tested.
Hospitalizations reported in the past day • 138. This is five higher from Sunday. Of those currently hospitalized, 54 are in intensive care units – one less than on Sunday.
Percentage of positive tests • According to the state’s original method, the rate is 7.4%. This is higher than the seven day average of 6.9%.
The state’s new method counts all test results, including repeated tests of the same individual. Monday’s rate was 4.0%, higher than the seven-day average of 3.5%.
[Read more: Utah is changing how it measures the rate of positive COVID-19 tests. Here’s what that means.]
Total to date • 392,957 cases; 2,166 deaths; 15,922 hospitalizations; 2 433 089 people were tested.
On Monday, the Utah Department of Health made a change in the way it counts the number of COVID-19 tests per day. Previously, it reported one test per person per day.
However, due to the use of antigen tests, which are regularly confirmed within the same day by PCR tests, UDOH now reports these confirmation tests in its total number. The percentage of positive tests is still calculated with one test per person per day.