Jeffrey Gerhart, 16, gets his second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from advanced EMT Jonathan Pimble at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy on April 22. On Monday, Utah health officials reported 2,669 new COVID-19 cases since Friday, as well as 21 additional deaths. (Spenser Heaps, Deseret News)
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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah health officials reported 2,669 new COVID-19 cases since Friday, as well as 21 additional deaths.
The rolling, seven-day average for new cases is 1,136 per day, and the average positive rate of those tested is 14.5%, the Utah Department of Health said.
Of those, 1,079 cases were confirmed on Friday; 873 cases were confirmed on Saturday; and 249 were confirmed on Sunday.
The state removed 32 previously-reported cases from the overall tally after data quality analysis, Monday’s report indicated.
School-age children accounted for 401 of the new cases — 199 cases were ages 5-10, 93 cases were 11-13, and 109 cases were 14-17.
Health care workers administered 17,423 vaccine doses since Friday, bringing total doses given in Utah to 4,328,094, the health department said. More than 1.8 million people in Utah are considered fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, with 511,249 people having received booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, according to the health department.
Of the cases confirmed since Friday, 922 were breakthrough cases, meaning the patient had been fully vaccinated more than two weeks before they tested positive for the disease. Three deaths were also breakthrough.
Now 53,912, or about 8.8% of the state’s 613,350 cases since the pandemic began have been confirmed as breakthrough. That percentage continues to rise nearly a year after vaccines became available. And 322, or about 8.8% of the state’s 3,661 deaths due to the coronavirus have been breakthrough cases.
On Monday, 503 patients were being treated with COVID-19 at Utah hospitals, a decrease of 14 since the previous Monday, Dec. 6.
The latest deaths included:
- A Utah County woman between the ages of 65 and 84, who was not hospitalized when she died.
- A Weber County man, 65-84, hospitalized.
- A Cache County man, older than 85, hospitalized.
- A Salt Lake County man, 65-84, not hospitalized.
- A Salt Lake County man, 45-64, hospitalized.
- A Weber County woman, 45-64, hospitalized.
- A Utah County man, 25-44, hospitalized.
- A Utah County woman, 25-44, hospitalized.
- A Carbon County resident, 65-84, not hospitalized.
- A Utah County woman, 65-84, hospitalized.
- A Weber County man, 25-44, hospitalized.
- A Cache County man, 45-64, hospitalized.
- Millard County woman, 65-84, not hospitalized.
- A Utah County resident, 65-84, not hospitalized.
- Two Utah County men, 45-64, hospitalized.
- A San Juan County woman, 45-64, hospitalized.
- A Salt Lake County man, older than 85, hospitalized.
- A Utah County resident, 45-64, not hospitalized.
- A Salt Lake County woman, 45-64, hospitalized.
- An Iron County man, 45-64, hospitalized.
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