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Utah reported 574 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday — the most in a single day since April 20, when there were 592. The rolling seven-day average stands at 372 a day.
There were also three more deaths, bringing the overall total to 2,371. The Utah Department of Health reported 39 coronavirus deaths in the month of June, the smallest one-month total in the past 15 months. (There were nine deaths reported in March 2020; the first COVID-19 death in Utah was reported on March 22, 2020.)
The number of Utahns fully vaccinated crossed the 1.4 million threshold, and 1.577 million have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Vaccine doses administered in past day/total doses administered • 8,189 / 2,859,376.
Utahns fully vaccinated • 1,403,870.
Cases reported in past day • 574.
Deaths reported in past day • Three: A woman between the ages of 45-64 in Iron County, and two women 65-84 in Salt Lake County.
Tests reported in past day • 4,775 people were tested for the first time. A total of 9,242 people were tested.
Hospitalizations reported in the past day • 247. That’s 22 more than on Tuesday. Of those currently hospitalized, 76 are in intensive care, three fewer than on Tuesday.
Percentage of positive tests • Under the state’s original method, the rate is 12%. That’s higher than the seven-day average of 9.8%.
The state’s new method counts all test results, including repeated tests of the same individual. Wednesday’s rate was 6.2%, slightly lower than the seven-day average of 6.5%.
[Read more: Utah is changing how it measures the rate of positive COVID-19 tests. Here’s what that means.]
Totals to date • 415,139 cases; 2,371 deaths; 17,508 hospitalizations; 2,795,039 people tested.
This story is developing and will be updated.
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