The Utah Department of Health’s (UDOH) week-ending COVID report Friday includes 131 new coronavirus cases in Utah and 22 more deaths, 17 of which occurred before Feb. 25 of this year. Two Cache County men are included in the deaths reported Friday, both were between 65-84 years of age.
UDOH reports it has been two weeks straight that daily positive case counts have been below 200, which leaves the rolling seven-day average for positive tests at 127 a day.
There have been 4,702 COVID deaths in Utah the last 24 months, including 242 in Cache, Box Elder and Rich counties.
Since the start of the pandemic in March, 2020, there have been more than 927,000 positive cases reported state wide.
In the last 28 days people who are unvaccinated are at 4.4 times greater risk of dying from COVID-19, 2.0 times greater risk of being hospitalized due to COVID-19 and 1.9 times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 than vaccinated people.
As of Friday there are 110 Utahns in hospitals with COVID-19, one more than on Thursday. There are 22 patients in intensive care units and nearly 66 percent of Utah’s ICU beds are full. There have been 33,927 COVID hospitalizations in Utah the last 24 months.
Almost two million Utahns are fully vaccinated, about 62 percent of the population. There were 1,964 people vaccinated since Thursday and almost five million vaccines have been administered since the start of the pandemic.
With 2,430 Utahns tested since Thursday just over five million people have been tested and almost 9.4 million total tests have been administered since the outbreak.
Almost 60 percent of the population living within the Bear River Health District are fully vaccinated and over 260,000 total vaccine doses have been administered in the district.
The northern Utah case count has reached almost 52,000 in Cache, Box Elder and Rich counties and over 2,000 people have been hospitalized since the pandemic began.
Utah’s new seven-day rolling average for percent positivity of “people over people” is 4.6 percent plus the rolling seven-day average for percent positivity of “tests over tests” is 2.7 percent.