It is the second day in a row with only a single recorded fatality, but Utah’s total inches are close to 2,000.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Amanda Bayly administers a Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccination for Jay Gaisford at TOSH – The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital in Murray on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Governor Spencer Cox announced on Thursday that the age of Utahns Over 50 can start making appointments to receive their COVID-19 vaccines next Monday, said Cox Utahns younger adults with certain health conditions, such as diabetes, type 1 or type 2 , obesity with a BMI index of 30 or higher and anyone with chronic kidney disease will also be eligible.
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For the second consecutive day, the Utah Department of Health reported only one death from COVID-19 in the state.
The state also reported only 259 new cases of coronavirus, the lowest in six months. But the number of tests on Sunday was also low (only about 5,500), as well as the number of people who received doses of the vaccine (just over 2,000).
The number of COVID-19 cases in Utah has exceeded 375,000, and the number of Utahns who have been fully vaccinated is now over 310,000.
Vaccine doses administered the previous day / total doses administered • 2,087 / 857,750.
Fully vaccinated Utahns • 310,327.
Cases reported the previous day • 259.
Deaths reported the day before • One, a Washington County man aged 65 to 84.
Hospitalizations reported the previous day • 193. That’s two as of Sunday. Of those currently hospitalized, 73 are in intensive care units – unchanged since Sunday.
Tests reported the day before • 3,083 people were tested for the first time. A total of 5,530 people were tested.
Percentage of positive tests • In the original state method, the rate is 8.4%. This is slightly lower than the 9.06% seven-day average.
His new method counts all test results, including repeated tests from the same individual. Monday’s rate is now at 4.7%, slightly above the seven-day average of 4.38%.
[Read more: Utah is changing how it measures the rate of positive COVID-19 tests. Here’s what that means.]
Totals to date • 375,109 cases; 1,977 deaths; 14,913 hospitalizations; 2,251,204 people tested.