COVID-19
With six new weekend COVID-19 deaths reported Monday, 4,545 Utahns have died from the virus over the course of the pandemic and 236 of them are in northern Utah.
A weekend total of 353 new coronavirus infections were reported Monday by the Utah Department of Health (UDOH), including 162 cases Friday, 125 Saturday and 84 Sunday. The daily case average for the three weekend days was 123 cases and that makes Utah’s seven-day average for positive tests at 169 a day.
In Cache, Box Elder and Rich counties 54 new positive cases were documented last week. Within the Bear River Health District (BRHD) 2,006 people have been hospitalized over the 24 months of the pandemic. The district’s northern Utah caseload has reached 51,400; almost 37,000 of those have been detected in Cache County.
BRHD reports 59 percent of the 186,818 people living Utah’s three northern counties are fully vaccinated and 70 percent of the population (5+) have received at least one dose.
With 5,423 Utahns tested since Friday nearly five million people have been tested in Utah and over 9.3 million total tests have been administered. There were 11,041 total tests administered the last three days.
There were 4,621 Utahns vaccinated since Friday and at the same time 11,041 more tests were administered. There are now over 1.99 million statewide who are fully vaccinated which is more than 61 percent of the state’s population.
As of Monday the number of patients hospitalized in Utah fell to 197, 15 fewer than were reported on Friday. Monday’s totals also indicate 325 patients in the state’s ICU’s, but 12 percent of them — 39 — have COVID. More than 33,701 Utahns have been hospitalized during the pandemic.
The health department reports 62.4 percent of Utah’s ICU beds are filled.
The new seven-day rolling average for percent positivity of “people over people” is 6.2 percent and the rolling seven-day average for percent positivity of “tests over tests” is 3.9 percent.