PROVO, Utah – Utah’s number of COVID-19 cases increased by 1,216 on Friday, with 17 more deaths reported, according to the Utah Department of Health.
Twelve of the deaths reported Friday occurred before Jan. 15 but were still being investigated by the Utah state medical examiner’s office, the health department said.
The state now estimates there are 32,727 active cases of the disease in Utah. The rolling seven-day average number of positive cases per day is now at 1,222, according to the health department. The positive test rate per day for that time period is now 16.3%.
There are 349 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Utah, including 117 in intensive care, state data shows. About 77% of intensive care unit beds in Utah are filled Friday, including about 80% of ICU beds in the state’s 16 referral hospitals. About 60% of non-ICU hospital beds are filled, according to state data.
A total of 382,881 vaccines have been administered in the state, up from 362,701 Thursday. Of those, 89,948 are second doses of the vaccine.
The new numbers indicate a 0.3% increase in positive cases since Thursday. Of the 2,061,926 people tested for COVID-19 in Utah so far, 17.1% have tested positive for the disease. The total number of tests conducted increased by 14,075 as of Friday, and 7,696 of those were tests of people who had not previously been tested for COVID-19.
The deaths reported Friday were:
- A Davis County woman who was over the age of 85 and was not hospitalized when she died
- Two Salt Lake County women who were over the age of 85 and were residents of long-term care facilities
- A Salt Lake County woman who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was not hospitalized when she died
- A Salt Lake County woman who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was a resident of a long-term care facility
- A Salt Lake County woman who was between the ages of 45 and 64 and was not hospitalized when she died
- Two Utah County women who were over the age of 85 and were not hospitalized when they died
- A Utah County woman who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was not hospitalized when she died
- A Weber County woman who was over the age of 85 and was not hospitalized when she died
- A Box Elder County man who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was hospitalized when he died
- A Cache County man who was over the age of 85 and was not hospitalized when he died
- A Davis County man who was over the age of 85 and was not hospitalized when he died
- A Morgan County man who was between the ages of 45 and 64 and was hospitalized when he died
- A Morgan County man who was over the age of 85 and was a resident of a long-term care facility
- A Salt Lake County man who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was a resident of a long-term care facility
- A Washington County man who was between the ages of 65 and 84 and was hospitalized when he died
Friday’s totals give Utah 352,489 total confirmed cases, with 13,755 total hospitalizations and 1,728 total deaths from the disease. An estimated 318,034 Utah COVID-19 cases are now considered recovered, according to the health department.
