9 more Utahns die from COVID over the last 7 days

FILE ILLUSTRATION: vaccines and COVID-19
There have been 5,065 COVID deaths in Utah since the start of the pandemic and in the last seven days another nine Utahns have lost their lives.
Now with 262 COVID deaths in the Bear River Health District since the start of the pandemic, 135 of them occurred in Box Elder County, 123 in Cache County and three in Rich County.
Including numbers from the last week, 56,530 total positive cases have been found in the district, 40,580 of them in Cache County.
There were 156 new cases in the Bear River Health district in the last week and over 68 percent of the northern Utah population (age 5+) has received at least one dose of the vaccine while 2,334 patients in northern Utah have been hospitalized with COVID.
Included in the state’s new release Thursday, Utah’s Division of Health and Human Services (DHHS) reported 107 COVID patients in the state’s hospitals, three more than a week earlier. Included in those numbers are 17 COVID patients in intensive care. Since the start of the pandemic there have been 39,227 COVID hospitalizations in Utah.
According to the state’s new breakdown over two million Utahns have received both doses of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine series which is almost 64 percent of the population.
Almost 44,000 vaccine doses were administered the last seven days to bring the total doses administered in Utah to more than 5.6 million.

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