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S T. JORGE – Southern Utah broke its one-day high for new coronavirus infections on Sunday, set the day before, in eight cases.
According to the Utah Department of Health, there were 67 new virus infections. Because the local The Southwest Utah Department of Public Health does not release exact figures on Sunday, it is unclear how that total breaks down between counties. There were 472 more cases across the state.
No new deaths were reported.
Dr. Angela Dunn, a state epidemiologist at the Utah Department of Health, said the large increase in cases does not correlate with any increase in testing.
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In southern Utah, there was an increase of 314.5% (454 cases to 1,428) in June. According to the Southwest Utah Department of Public HealthThere have been 364 more tests in southern Utah in June than in May, an increase of 7%.
Starting Monday, the hours for Intermountain Medical’s free test drive site at St. George’s at 376 E. 500 South will change from 7 am to 3 pm, seven days a week.
The line of cars to the site continues to stretch around the block, and Dr. Patrick Carroll, Medical Director of Dixie Regional Medical Center acknowledges that the wait for some has been extended in hours. He said in a Zoom call with reporters earlier in the week that Intermountain is working to add more staff to the site to speed up the process.
“The waits have been long,” said Carroll, adding that people can speed up the process by ccalling your primary care doctor and placing a test order. “That will speed up that,” he said.
Intermountain also tests at Cedar City Instacare at 962 Sage Drive and at Garfield Memorial Hospital at 200 N. 400 East in Panguitch. The Cedar City site is open seven days a week, while Panguitch is open Monday through Friday.
Test drives are also conducted at Beaver Valley Hospital and Kane County Hospital in Kanab.
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