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Utah reports 7,789 new COVID-19 cases, 22 additional deaths over past week
Registered nurse Clarece Glanville offers Robert Dennis-Garcia, 8, his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on the Legacy Occasions Middle in Farmington on Jan. 24. The Utah Division of Well being and Human Companies on Thursday reported 7,789 new COVID-19 instances, in addition to 22 further deaths over the previous week. (Mengshin Lin, Deseret Information)
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Division of Well being and Human Companies reported 7,789 new COVID-19 instances, in addition to 22 further deaths over the previous week.
The typical new case depend for every day was simply over 1,112 instances. On Thursday, 252 sufferers had been hospitalized with the coronavirus in Utah, a lower of seven because the earlier Thursday, July 7.
All of Utah’s wastewater testing services marked elevated or rising ranges of the virus this week — 100% in comparison with 64.7% of websites the earlier week, in accordance with state well being information.
Salt Lake, Tooele, Summit, Piute, Grand and San Juan counties are experiencing excessive charges of illness, in accordance with the CDC tips, however the remainder of the state is seeing low or average case charges. The numbers don’t embrace outcomes from any house checks.
To this point, Utah has confirmed 997,556 COVID-19 instances and 4,869 deaths because of the illness.