Utah
Weekly COVID report shows spread continues to decrease in Utah
Maleea Ezekiel, Utah Division of Well being and Human Companies wastewater surveillance challenge coordinator, prepares 24-hour composite wastewater samples for extraction, to check for COVID-19, on the Utah Public Well being Laboratory in Taylorsville on Aug. 24. On Thursday the state reported 1,919 new COVID-19 circumstances and 10 extra deaths over the previous week. (Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information)
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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah well being officers reported 1,919 new COVID-19 circumstances and 10 extra deaths over the previous week.
The seven-day common of latest every day COVID-19 circumstances reported has continued to lower over the previous few months and is at present at 274 new reported circumstances per day, down from over 1,000 per day in July and 359 final week, in keeping with the Utah Division of Well being and Human Companies’ weekly report. At-home testing shouldn’t be included within the outcomes.
Wastewater testing websites confirmed 52.9% had rising virus ranges, the identical because the earlier week’s report. Each county in Utah has a “low” neighborhood transmission stage for COVID-19, per the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention; a metric that elements in wastewater COVID-19 ranges.
Different metrics present slight decreases in COVID-19 unfold. For the primary time since Might, emergency room visits because of COVID-19 have dipped under 2% of the full visits. Presently, 1.94% of sufferers who visited emergency rooms had the virus.
On Thursday, 133 sufferers had been hospitalized with COVID-19 all through Utah; 16 of these sufferers are in intensive care items.
In all, 1,036,535 COVID-19 circumstances have been confirmed within the state for the reason that begin of the pandemic, in addition to 5,011 deaths as a result of illness.