FILE PHOTO: COVID-19 test. Photo by Mufid Majnun on Unsplash
When the state issued its update of COVID-19 metrics this week it included the 1,881 new cases of the coronavirus reported the last seven days in Utah. That means in the 30 months since the beginning of the pandemic the state has seen 1,038,416 confirmed cases of the disease.
There were also 10 new COVID deaths in the new report, including a Cache County man 85 and older. There have been 5,021 COVID deaths in Utah.
Within the Bear River Health District, COVID deaths now total 260.
Since the outbreak, 55,970 total positive cases have been found in the district, 40,207 of them in Cache County.
There were 101 new cases in the Bear River Health district over the last week and over 68 percent of the northern Utah population (age 5+) has received at least one dose of the vaccine while 2,287 patients in northern Utah have been hospitalized with COVID.
In the new report, Utah’s Division of Health and Human Services (DHHS) reported 106 COVID patients in the state’s hospitals, 27 fewer than a week earlier. Included in those numbers are 13 COVID patients in intensive care. Since the start of the pandemic there have been 38,589 COVID hospitalizations in Utah.
Exactly 2,058,547 Utahns are fully vaccinated — which is 63 percent of the population — and 996,292 have received at lease one booster shot.
Almost 37,000 vaccine doses were administered the last seven days to bring the total doses administered in Utah to more than 5.47 million.