Another 413 cases of COVID-19 in Utah, and seven more deaths reported

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Another 413 Utahns have tested positive for COVID-19, and another seven deaths are attributed to the disease in the state, the Utah Department of Health reported Wednesday.

The seven-day moving average for cases, which public health professionals use to monitor trends in the spread of the disease, fell to 589 per day on Wednesday. That average hit more than 651 a day on Monday.

The seven reported deaths bring the total number of deaths to 233. The seven Utah people whose deaths were reported are:

• A Davis County man, between the ages of 65 and 84, who was hospitalized when he died.

• A Salt Lake County man, age 65 to 84, who was not in the hospital when he died.

• A Salt Lake County man, ages 45-64, who was hospitalized when he died.

• A San Juan County woman, age 85 and older, who was in a long-term care facility.

• A Utah County woman, ages 65 to 84, who was not in the hospital when she died.

• A Weber County man, ages 45-64, who was not in the hospital when he died.

• A Weber County man, age 65 to 84, who was hospitalized when he died.

In a statement, UDOH officials noted that the deaths the agency reports each day have not occurred in the past 24 hours. There is usually a 2-7 day delay when the state reports someone’s death, sometimes longer if a Utah resident dies out of state.

The agency does not list death dates in its report, citing privacy reasons. “It would be too easy to potentially identify an individual,” said UDOH, if given the county of residence, general age, gender, and date of death of a person.

The seven deaths bring the total reported deaths in seven days to 32-10 of them on Tuesday.

UDOH reported that 204 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 through Tuesday. (Hospitalization figures lag behind the case count per day.) There have been 1,913 people hospitalized with COVID-19 since the first cases were reported in March; 25 of them entered the hospital on Tuesday.

According to Wednesday’s report, another 7,559 tests for COVID-19 were performed in one day, bringing the total number of tests to 432,080. The seven-day moving average for the percentage of positive laboratory tests is 10.13%.

New cases on Wednesday bring the state’s total cases since the pandemic began to 30,891. Of these, the state considers that 18,593 people “recovered,” which public health officials define as remaining alive three weeks after diagnosis.