Utah County behind ‘clear’ spike in coronavirus case, state health officials say

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State Health officials said Monday that students at the Student Ledge in Utah County are running a spike in new coronavirus cases that are now “clear” after several days of increasing numbers, state health officials said Monday.

“We are now experiencing a clear upward trend in the calculation of the case,” state epidemiologist Angela Dunn wrote in a statement. “This trend is largely being driven by an increase in the cases of young college-aged adults in Utah County.”

With 3,56 new coronavirus cases reported on Monday, Utah’s new diagnosis rate fell short of the governor’s target of less than 100 cases a day.

Over the past seven days, Utah has received an average of 487 new positive test results per day, the Utah Department of Health reported Monday. Gov. Gary Herbert said he wants the state to Sept. By 1, 400 new cases were coming down every day, Utah was found in mid-August, but swept again on Sept. 3.

The virus continued to spread in Utah County, where 210 new cases were reported Monday. Over the past seven days, Utah County has received more than 31 new cases per 100,000 people, an average of 15 new daily cases per 100,000 in the state, and Salt Lake County has an average of 14.7.

“As of last Friday, 39% of all new cases came from Utah County, despite the fact that Utah County’s population represents 20% of the state’s population. Most of these cases are in 14-24 year olds, and most of them are college-aged young adults.

Utah County is at the “yellow” or lower, restriction level per state guideline.

The death toll from the coronavirus in Utah was 6 at6 on Monday, with three deaths reported since Sunday.

The death in Duchenne County was the county’s first fatal case of COVID-19.

U.D.O.H. The report said no hospital was admitted Monday, with 134 Utah patients admitted simultaneously. An average of 122 patients are being treated in Utah hospitals every day last week – a little more than last week, but 211 patients were hospitalized every day in late July.

A total of 3,338 patients were hospitalized in COVID-19 in Utah as of Sunday 12.

U.D.O.H. Nationwide, Utah has had a positive test rate of over 5% since May 25, according to the data.

There were 4,809 new test results reported on Monday, with an average of 4,277 new tests being performed per day of the week. With more than 1,000 new results being reported in the state in mid-July, the demand for testing remains well below mid-July.

Schools Since public schools began on August 1, there have been outbreaks in schools, affecting 215 patients, with 6 new outbreaks and 36 new cases reported in recent days – the largest increase in school-related cases in a single day. Is. . Since the onset of the epidemic, there have been 200 outbreaks of 56 out of 56 patients, aged 17 years. 9 of them have been hospitalized; No one died.

Meanwhile, four Roy High School administrators are under quarantine after a test under Civil-19, apparently contracted out of the school, the Weber School District reported Monday.

The number of young patients with coronavirus is increasing dramatically. According to the latest weekly average, 1000 viruses between the ages of 15 and 24 are transmitting four viruses daily.

“Colleges across the state, and especially in Utah County, have taken proactive action to implement concrete preventive measures on their campuses. “They need the help of their students to work responsibly outside of campus,” Dunn wrote. “What students do off-campus has a direct impact on the school’s ability to run their campus safely.”

Students at Brigham Young University, in particular, have been facing criticism from large, campus parties since the start of the fall period.

“I’m not going to stop,” Kwaku Al, a senior at BYU and founder of events company Young / Dumb, wrote in an Instagram post. Videos of her parties this month show hundreds of people dancing in the crowd, overwhelming without masks.

Al said on Instagram that he believes that bouncing off social distance recommendations saves the economy.

As of Friday, BYU has registered 258 new cases in this term in its campus community, numbering 43,000. In contrast, the University of Utah on Monday brought between 15 and 195 cases between Aug. 62 and 62,000 on 62 campuses. Utah State University has reported 122 cases among about 31,000 students and staff on its campus nationwide; And the University of Utah Valley in September. 7 has recorded 67 drop cases on its 23,000 campus. BYU and UVU post new case numbers weekly.

Of the 58,438 tests that tested positive for Covid-19, 48,934 were considered “recovered” – that is, they survived for at least three weeks after diagnosis.