FILE PHOTO: Empty blood tube with Positive Coronavirus label. Photo by Prasesh Shiwakoti (Lomash) on Unsplash.
LOGAN – Among 12 COVID deaths recorded in Utah the last seven days are two in Cache County, a man and a woman between 65-84 years of age. Every one of the 12 recent deaths in Utah were age 65 or older.
Included in other COVID-19 metrics almost 65 percent of the state’s wastewater sites that were tested showed high levels of the virus in sewers. Those rated in the low transmission category are Rich, Box Elder, Carbon, Daggett, Davis, Emery and Morgan counties.
There have been 4,940 COVID-19 fatalities since the start of the pandemic in March of 2020.
COVID-19 deaths have reached 255 within the Bear River Health District, which includes Cache, Box Elder and Rich counties.
Since the outbreak 54,882 total positive cases have been found in the district, nearly 40,000 of them in Cache County.
There were 229 new cases in the district the last seven days and 68 percent of the northern Utah population (age 5+) has received at least one dose of the vaccine and 2,215 patients in northern Utah have been hospitalized with COVID. Utah’s Division of Health and Human Services reported 191 COVID patients in the state’s hospitals as of Thursday, including 24 in intensive care. Since the start of the pandemic there have been 37,486 hospitalizations due to COVID.
More than 4,600 new cases were reported in the last week; that number does not include home tests. There have been 1,020,130 positive cases of COVID in Utah the last 28 months. The last seven days 18,688 positive cases were reported.
Just over two million Utahns are fully vaccinated — which is 63 percent of the population — and more than 977,223 have received at lease one booster shot.
Most of the current COVID-19 testing in Utah is done with home tests — which are not reported publicly.
Nearly 15,000 vaccine doses were administered the last seven days which brings the total doses administered in Utah to more than 5.3 million.