Utah has seen 524,556 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 3,025 total deaths as of Tuesday, according to the Utah Department of Health. That’s an increase of 4,366 cases since Friday. Twenty-six cases were removed from the total count through data quality analysis. School-aged kids account for 924 of today’s newly announced cases. Thirty-one new deaths were reported.
Here are the latest numbers.
- Total number of COVID-19 cases: 524,556
- Total reported people tested: 3,554,305
- Vaccines administered: 3,575,508
- Total COVID-19 hospitalizations: 22,884
- Current COVID-19 hospitalizations: 598
- Total COVID-19 deaths: 3,025
- Single-day high for reported cases: 4,672 (Dec. 31)
- Single-day high for reported deaths: 30 (Dec. 17 and Jan. 21)
Recently
- Utah is beefing up COVID-19 testing so residents no longer have to wait in line for hours to be swabbed for the virus and is also piloting a new process intended to make it easier to get the results required for travel to many places,
- The Utah Department of Health is now recommending high-risk individuals get a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
- State attorneys general, including Utah AG Sean Reyes, are banding together in preparation to sue when President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate rules become official.
- Children as young as 5 years old may be able to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Halloween, now that Pfizer and BioTech are reporting lower doses of their vaccine proved safe.
- While one Utah Republican, Rep. Chris Stewart, harshly criticized the CDC’s latest mask recommendations, GOP Sen. Mitt Romney says being pro-life means getting COVID-19 vaccine.
- Even with the shots, Utahns can still catch the coronavirus. “All of us are going to get it at some point,” a Westminster College professor said.
- The Rev. Jackson Lahmeyer joins other pastors across the country offering to sign forms and letters for Americans who seek faith-based exemptions from coronavirus and COVID-19 vaccinations.
- The University of Utah is offering free, weekly asymptomatic testing for COVID-19 to family and household members of its students, faculty and staff.
Worldwide
Globally, the novel coronavirus pandemic has now infected 237,655,302 and killed 4,846,981 people as of Tuesday, according to the World Health Organization.
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Utah coronavirus updates: The latest COVID-19 news and case counts
Source: Gabriella Pinoys
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