Caiden Bishop swabs her nose for a COVID-19 test at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Jan. 31. Utah health officials reported 771 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday along with 27 additional deaths as average case numbers continue to decline. (Scott G. Winterton, Deseret News)
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Department of Health reported 27 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, along with 771 new cases.
The rolling seven-day average for new positive tests is now 1.384 per day, down from 1.466 on Monday. The seven-day average for positive tests is currently 29%, continuing its decline as the omicron variant rise in cases is subsiding.
Health officials reported 4,050 people in Utah were tested for COVID-19 since Monday’s report.
Currently, the health department is not recommending general testing. State health officials are recommending COVID-19 testing for people with underlying conditions and those who are elderly, going to visit someone who is vulnerable, have been sick and want to confirm that they are negative for COVID-19, are traveling somewhere that requires a negative COVID-19 test, work in health care including long-term care facilities, or live or work in congregate settings like prisons and homeless shelters or with vulnerable populations.
School children accounted for 108 of the new cases reported Tuesday. Of those cases, 45 were children between ages 5 and 10, 30 were ages 11-13, and 33 were ages 14-17.
Currently, 529 people are hospitalized throughout the state with COVID-19, according to the health department. Of those patients, 117 are in an intensive care unit. The state’s ICUs are about 75% full now, while the hospitals are at about 53% capacity. ICU referral centers are about 78% full, according to health department reports.
Total hospital utilization is at 78%, just over the health department’s utilization warning which is 77%.
Of the 27 deaths reported on Tuesday, health officials said that at least three occurred prior to Jan. 15. The health department also said that one death was taken out of the count, after further investigation. There have been 4,326 COVID-19 deaths in Utah since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in April 2020.
The latest deaths include:
- A Salt Lake County man older than 85, who was not hospitalized when he died
- A Weber County woman, 65-84, not hospitalized
- A Davis County woman, over 85, long-term care facility resident
- A Millard County man, 45-64, hospitalized
- A Box Elder County woman, over 85, not hospitalized
- A Salt Lake County man, over 85, unknown whether he was hospitalized or a long-term care facility resident
- Two Washington County women, 65-84, both hospitalized
- A Davis County man, 65-84, long-term care facility resident
- A Sanpete County man, 45-64, hospitalized
- A Utah County man, over 85, long-term care facility resident
- A Weber County man, 65-84, long-term care facility resident
- A Utah County man, 45-64, hospitalized
- A Beaver County man, 45-64, hospitalized
- A Salt Lake County man, over 85, hospitalized
- A Weber County man, 65-84, not hospitalized
- A Utah County woman, 65-84, not hospitalized
- A Salt Lake County man, 65-84, hospitalized
- A Box Elder County man, 65-84, unknown whether he was hospitalized or a long-term care facility resident
- A Carbon County woman, 65-84, hospitalized
- A Uintah County woman, over 85, hospitalized
- A Uintah County woman, 65-84, not hospitalized
- An Emery County man, 45-64, hospitalized
- A Utah County man, over 85, not hospitalized
- A Tooele County man, 65-84, hospitalized
- A Utah County man, 65-84, not hospitalized
- A Cache County man, 65-84, unknown whether he was hospitalized or a long-term care facility resident
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Emily Ashcraft joined KSL.com as a reporter in 2021. She covers courts and legal affairs, as well as health, faith and religion news.
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