Utah National Guard Pfc. Jacob Osborne, with 19th Special Forces at Camp Williams in Bluffdale, carries a reagent on a BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card for COVID-19 cases at a COVID-19 testing site at Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City on July 6th since Friday and another 27 deaths. (Scott G. Winterton, Desertet News)
SALT LAKE CITY – Utah health officials have reported 4,657 new COVID-19 cases as well as 27 additional deaths since Friday.
A breakdown of each day’s cases:
- Friday: 1.871
- Saturday: 1.187
- Sunday: 922
- Monday: 707
1,151 of the most recent cases were in school-age children – 493 cases were between the ages of 5 and 10; 290 cases were 11-13; and 368 were 14-18, according to the Utah Department of Health.
The 7-day rolling average for positive tests is 1,382 per day, while the percent positivity rate for those tested people after Tuesday’s update is 12.6%.
In Utah, 482 people are currently hospitalized with the disease, 21 fewer than on Friday. Referral ICUs, which serve the critically ill patients, are 89% occupied and total ICU use is 86% occupied, while non-ICUs across the state are 58% occupied.
Healthcare workers have given 15,438 additional vaccines since Friday’s report, bringing the total number of vaccinations given in Utah to 3,296,467. For the past 28 days, the risk of dying from COVID-19 for unvaccinated residents is 4.1 times the risk of being hospitalized for COVID-19 and 5.4 times the risk of being positive to test for COVID-19, as vaccinated people the State Health Office.
People who are not vaccinated are 5.2 times more likely to die from COVID-19, 5.2 times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19, and as of February 1 a 4.6 times higher risk of testing positive for COVID-19 than vaccinated people.
Breakthrough cases in fully vaccinated subjects accounted for 11,906 cases in Utah, 645 hospital admissions and 64 deaths. Of the fully vaccinated residents, around 0.8% tested positive for COVID-19. Of those vaccinated cases, 0.04% had to be hospitalized and 0.004% died, state data shows.
Recent deaths include:
- Cache County woman aged 25 to 44 who was hospitalized after her death.
- A Davis County woman, 65-84, was hospitalized.
- Two Davis County men, 65-84, hospitalized.
- A Davis County man, older than 85, was hospitalized.
- Davis County man, 45-64, hospitalized.
- Two Utah County men, 25-44 years old, one hospitalized and one not.
- A Utah County man, 65-84, was hospitalized.
- Two Salt Lake County women, 65-84, one of whom was hospitalized and was a long-term carer.
- Two Salt Lake County men, 65-84 years old, one of whom was not hospitalized and the other was a patient.
- A Salt Lake County man, older than 85, was not hospitalized.
- Two Washington County men, 45-64, hospitalized.
- Two Washington County men, 65-84, one hospitalized and one not.
- A woman from Washington County, 65-84 years old, was hospitalized.
- A Washington County woman, 45-64, was hospitalized.
- A Washington County woman, older than 85, was hospitalized.
- A woman from Box Elder County, 45-64, was hospitalized.
- A man from Uintah County, 45-64, was hospitalized.
- A man from Weber County, 65-84, hospitalized.
- A Sevier County woman, older than 85, was hospitalized.
- A man from Beaver County, 45-64, admitted to the hospital.
- A man from Sanpete County, 65-84, was hospitalized.
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