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The Utah Department of Health reported 832 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, the 12th day in the past two weeks that number has been below 1,000.
The state also reported 11 more coronavirus-related deaths. Four of those occurred before Feb. 1 and were only recently confirmed to be the result of COVID-19.
Vaccine doses administered in past day/total doses administered • 18,563 / 660,444.
Number of Utahns who have received two doses • 229,526.
Cases reported in past day • 832.
Deaths reported in past day • 11.
Utah County reported three deaths — a woman between the ages of 65 and 84 and a man and a woman 85 or older.
There were two deaths in Davis County — a woman 65 to 84 and a woman 85-plus.
Salt Lake County also reported two deaths — a man 25 to 44 and a man 65 to 84.
Two Tooele County residents died — a woman 45 to 64 and a woman 85 or older.
And Weber County reported two deaths — a man 45 to 64 and a woman 65 to 84.
Hospitalizations reported in past day • 221. That’s down one from Wednesday. Of those currently hospitalized, 87 are in intensive care units — four fewer than on Wednesday.
Tests reported in past day • 8,582 people were tested for the first time. A total of 21,176 people were tested.
Percentage of positive tests • Under the state’s original method, the rate is 9.7%. That’s lower than the seven-day average of 12.4%.
Its new method counts all test results, including repeated tests of the same individual. Thursday’s rate is now at 3.9%, lower than the seven-day average of 5.7%.
[Read more: Utah is changing how it measures the rate of positive COVID-19 tests. Here’s what that means.]
Totals to date • 369,433 cases; 1,890 deaths; 14,597 hospitalizations; 2,189,176 people tested.
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