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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Department of Health reported 100 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday and 24 deaths.
The new cases were confirmed out of 2,493 people tested since the previous day's report. School-age children accounted for 21 of the cases.
Across the state, 238 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, a decrease of 23 since Monday.
Now, 66.1% of residents ages 5 and older have been vaccinated with at least two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or one dose of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. Meanwhile, 27% have also received booster shots.
It was unclear if the new deaths are the result of the record number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 throughout the omicron surge of infections, which hit Utah in mid-December and lasted through January. Officials have long said hospitalizations, and then deaths, are lagging indicators of community risk. Some had predicted Utah would see a rise in the number of deaths following those days and weeks of record COVID-19 hospitalizations.
The new deaths reported Tuesday include:
- A Utah County woman, between the ages of 65 and 84, who was not hospitalized at the time of her death
- A Washington County man, 65-84, not hospitalized
- A Utah County man, older than 85, long-term care facility resident
- Two Washington County men, 65-84, hospitalized
- A Salt Lake County man, 25-44, hospitalized
- A Salt Lake County man, 45-64, hospitalized
- A Salt Lake County woman, 45-64, hospitalized
- A Utah County man, 25-64, hospitalized
- A Salt Lake County man, 45-64, hospitalized
- A Washington County man, 45-64, long-term care facility resident
- A Washington County man, 65-84, long-term care facility resident
- A Weber County man, 65-84, not hospitalized
- A Sanpete County man, 65-84, long-term care facility resident
- A Salt Lake County man, 65-84, hospitalized
- A Salt Lake County man, 65-84, not hospitalized
- A Salt Lake County man, older than 85, not hospitalized
- A Davis County man, 65-84, not hospitalized
- An Iron County woman, older than 85, hospitalized
- A Salt Lake County woman, 65-84, long-term care facility resident
- A Utah County man, 65-84, hospitalized
- A Washington County woman, 65-84, not hospitalized
- A Salt Lake County man, 65-84, long-term care facility resident
- A Box Elder County man, 65-84, hospitalized
