Utah
Utah reports 5,866 new COVID-19 cases, 16 additional deaths in past week
Megan Clay administers a COVID-19 check to Angel Alsammarraie in West Valley Metropolis on July 6. Utah well being officers on Thursday reported 5,866 new COVID-19 circumstances and 16 further deaths over the previous week. (Ben B. Braun, Deseret Information)
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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah well being officers reported 5,866 new COVID-19 circumstances and 16 further deaths over the previous week.
The day by day common of recent circumstances was about 838 per day. This week’s circumstances marked a lower since the previous couple of weeks. The week ending final Thursday, July 21, Utah confirmed 6,870 circumstances; and the week earlier than that, 7,789 new circumstances had been reported. The numbers don’t embody dwelling assessments.
Regardless of case decreases, extra wastewater testing websites confirmed rising or elevated virus ranges in comparison with final week. Now 97.1% of web sites have elevated virus ranges, a greater than 30% enhance over the earlier week.
The share of emergency room visits with the coronavirus decreased barely, nonetheless, from 5.58% to five.13%.
On Thursday, 252 sufferers had been hospitalized with COVID-19 all through Utah, a slight enhance over the earlier Thursday, July 21, when 242 individuals in hospitals had the sickness.
Now 1,010,292 circumstances have been confirmed because the begin of the pandemic, in addition to 4,900 deaths as a result of illness.