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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Department of Health reported 184 new cases of COVID-19 Saturday and five additional deaths.
That brings Utah up to 6,103 positive cases and 66 total deaths from the novel coronavirus, up from 5,919 cases the day before. The state saw a 3.1% increase in cases since Friday; 4.3% of the state's COVID-19 tests have returned positive so far.
According to the health department, 143,294 people in Utah have been recorded as having been tested for coronavirus.
Health department spokesperson Jenny Johnson said four of the deaths were Salt Lake County residents and one was from San Juan County. Three of the Salt Lake deaths were associated with a long-term care facility, she said in an email; three were women over 60 and one was a man over 60.
The San Juan County victim was a man under age 60, she said.
Ten more Utahns have been hospitalized with the disease, for a total of 498 since the pandemic began. As of Saturday, 2,901 Utahns are considered recovered by Utah Department of Health methodology, under which a case diagnosed more than three weeks ago that did not result in death is considered recovered.
The total number of cases reported by the health department includes all cases of COVID-19 since Utah’s outbreak began, including those who are infected now, those who have recovered from the disease, and those who have died.
