A woman hands her saliva sample to a worker at a COVID-19 testing site in Bountiful on January 19. Utah health officials reported 98 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, along with five other deaths. (Laura Seitz, Deseret News)
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SALT LAKE CITY — Health officials in Utah on Tuesday reported 98 new COVID-19 cases, along with five other deaths.
The new cases were confirmed by 1,985 people tested, the Utah Department of Health said. The seven-day moving average for new cases is now 113 per day.
School-age children made up 17 of the cases reported Tuesday.
According to the state Department of Health and Human Services, 97 patients with the coronavirus are now hospitalized across Utah, the lowest number since May 2021.
Health care workers administered just over 1,500 additional vaccine doses since the previous day’s report, bringing the total doses administered in Utah to 5,003,106 since vaccines became available in December 2020.
In the past 28 days, unvaccinated people were 2.6 times more likely to die from COVID-19, 2 times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID-19, and 2 times more likely to have to test positive for COVID-19 than vaccinated people, according to the state health department.
Compared to people who received booster shots, unvaccinated people in Utah are 9.4 times more likely to die from COVID-19, 4.9 times more likely to be hospitalized due to COVID-19 , and a 1.9 times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 than charged people, health officials said.
Since the pandemic began, Utah has confirmed 927,649 COVID-19 cases and 4,711 deaths. Of those cases, 173,353 were breakthrough cases in people who had been fully vaccinated more than two weeks before testing positive for the coronavirus. The state has also reported 565 landmark deaths since vaccines became available.
Deaths from the disease have fallen dramatically in Utah, and many of the recently reported deaths have occurred in the prior months. Four of the deaths reported Tuesday occurred before February 28. A previous death was withdrawn from the state’s total following further investigation, officials said.
Deaths announced on Tuesday include:
- A Weber County man, between the ages of 65 and 84, whose hospital status was unknown when he died.
- Salt Lake County male, 25-44, hospital status unknown.
- Uintah County male, 65-84, hospital status unknown.
- Carbon County male, 65-84, hospital status unknown.
- Tooele County male, 65-84, hospital status unknown.
State health officials will stop releasing new daily COVID-19 statistics on Thursday. Case counts are then updated each Thursday via the state’s online coronavirus dashboard coronavirus.utah.gov/case-counts/.
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