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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah health officials reported 543 new COVID-19 cases since Friday, as well as nine additional deaths.
The rolling, seven-day average for new cases is now 282 per day, and the positivity rate of people who were tested is 9.4%, the Utah Department of Health said Monday.
Of the new cases, 241 cases were confirmed on Friday, 206 on Saturday, and 102 on Sunday. School-age children accounted for 62 of the overall cases reported Monday.
There are currently 261 people hospitalized with the coronavirus across Utah, which is 155 fewer patients since one week earlier on Monday, Feb. 28.
To date, the state has confirmed 167,529 breakthrough cases and 507 breakthrough deaths among people in Utah who were fully vaccinated more than two weeks before testing positive for COVID-19. Breakthrough cases and deaths make up 20% and 11% of all of Utah's COVID-19 cases and deaths, according to state data.
Meanwhile, 40,537 people in Utah who were fully vaccinated and boosted have tested positive, and 76 vaccinated and boosted people have died due to the coronavirus.
Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, Utah has confirmed 924,791 total COVID-19 cases and 4,461 total deaths due to the disease.
Internationally, six million people have died due to COVID-19 as of Monday, multiple outlets reported.
One previously reported death in Utah was removed from the state's COVID-19 death count after further investigation, health officials said.
The latest Utah deaths include:
- A Washington County man, between the ages of 65 and 84, who was a long-term care facility resident when he died.
- A Box Elder County man, 65-84, long-term care facility resident.
- An Emery County man, 65-84, not hospitalized.
- A Sevier County woman, 65-84, long-term care facility resident.
- A Salt Lake County man, older than 85, long-term care facility resident.
- A Salt Lake County man, 18-24, not hospitalized.
- A Salt Lake County woman, 25-44, not hospitalized.
- A Salt Lake County woman, 45-64, not hospitalized.
- A Salt Lake County man, 65-84, not hospitalized.
