The state’s death toll is now 2,118.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Max Jones, 20, will receive his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from the Utah County Health Department in Spanish Fork on March 25, 2021.
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Another 371 Utahns have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the state health department reported Tuesday – but more than 24,000 received a vaccine dose for the disease.
The Utah Department of Health also reported that another four Utahns have died from COVID-19, bringing the state’s death toll to 2,118.
Vaccine Doses Delivered Last Day / Total Doses Delivered • 24,329 / 1,331,862.
Utahns fully vaccinated • 487,418.
Cases reported in the past day • 371.
Deaths reported last day • Four.
The four have been identified as: an Iron County woman between the ages of 45 and 64; a woman from Salt Lake County, 25-44; a man from Uintah County, older than 85 years; and a man from Utah County, 65 to 84.
Hospital stays reported on the previous day • 134. That is four fewer than on Monday. Of the people currently in the hospital, 57 are in intensive care units – just like on Monday.
Tests Reported Last Day • For the first time, 5,113 people were tested. A total of 14,696 people were tested.
Percentage of positive tests • According to the original state method, the rate is 7.3%. That’s more than the seven-day average of 6.7%.
The state’s new method counts all test results, including repeated tests of the same person. Tuesday’s rate was 2.5%, below the seven-day average of 3.4%.
[Read more: Utah is changing how it measures the rate of positive COVID-19 tests. Here’s what that means.]
Total number so far • 385,127 cases; 2,118 deaths; 15,503 hospital stays; 2,380,237 people tested.
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