An average of 114 new COVID cases a day reported from the weekend

Cache Valley. Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash

An average of 114 new COVID-19 cases a day were included in the Utah Health Department’s (UDOH) report of new coronavirus infections from the three-day weekend. Day-by-day there were 174 new cases Friday, 102 Saturday and 67 Sunday.

The new weekend total of 343 cases is about a tenth of the weekend total from just over a month ago when 3,128 cases were listed on the Feb. 14 report.

Utah’s new rolling seven-day average for positive tests has dropped to 134 a day.

The new UDOH report includes 12 new COVID deaths. One has been retracted following further study by the medical examiner while five of these deaths occurred before Feb. 21 of this year. During the 24 months of the pandemic 4,572 Utahns have lost their lives to the virus, including 236 deaths in northern Utah.

There have been almost 927,000 positive cases in Utah since the pandemic started.

As of Monday there are 130 Utah patients hospitalized with COVID-19 which is 26 fewer than Friday. There are currently 22 COVID-19 patients in intensive care units, four fewer than Friday; about 63 percent of the ICU beds in Utah’s larger hospitals are now filled. The number of hospitalizations in Utah since the start of the pandemic is 33,793.

The number of Utahns fully vaccinated is 1.995 million which is over 61 percent of the state’s population. There were 4,500 people vaccinated statewide since Friday and over 4.99 million vaccine doses have been administered since the start of the pandemic.

From the Bear River Health Department’s weekly Monday report the northern Utah case count has grown to 51,442 cases. There were 42 new cases in Utah’s three northern most counties last week, 35 of them in Cache County.

In Cache, Box Elder and Rich counties 59 percent of the population (ages 5+) are fully vaccinated and 70 percent has received at least one dose.

The new seven-day rolling average for percent positivity of “people over people” is 4.8 percent and the rolling seven-day average for percent positivity of “tests over tests” is 2.8 percent.

Idaho’s Monday COVID update indicates 4,834 coronavirus deaths and the new total of confirmed COVID-19 cases is 441,938 statewide. Nearly 929,000 people are fully vaccinated in Idaho.

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