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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah health officials reported 98 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, as well as five additional deaths.
The new cases were confirmed out of 1,985 people tested, the Utah Department of Health said. The rolling, seven-day average for new cases is now 113 per day.
School-age children accounted for 17 of the cases reported Tuesday.
Now, 97 patients are hospitalized with the coronavirus across Utah, the lowest number since May 2021, according to data from the state health department.
Health care workers administered just over 1,500 additional vaccine doses since the previous day's report, bringing total doses given in Utah to 5,003,106 since vaccines became available in December 2020.
In the last 28 days, people who are unvaccinated have seen 2.6 times greater risk of dying from COVID-19, 2 times greater risk of being hospitalized due to COVID-19, and 2 times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 than vaccinated people, according to the state health department.
Compared to people who received booster shots, unvaccinated people in Utah are at 9.4 times greater risk of dying from COVID-19, 4.9 times greater risk of being hospitalized due to COVID-19, and 1.9 times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 than boosted people, health officials said.
Since the start of the pandemic, Utah has confirmed 927,649 COVID-19 cases and 4,711 deaths. Of those cases, 173,353 were breakthrough cases, among people who had been fully vaccinated more than two weeks before testing positive with the coronavirus. The state has also reported 565 breakthrough deaths since vaccines became available.
Deaths due to the disease have declined drastically in Utah, and many of the recently reported deaths occurred in prior months. Four of the deaths reported Tuesday occurred before Feb. 28. One previous death was retracted from the state's total after further investigation, officials said.
The deaths announced Tuesday include:
- A Weber County man between the ages of 65 and 84, whose hospitalization status was unknown when he died.
- A Salt Lake County man, 25-44, unknown hospitalization status.
- A Uintah County man, 65-84, unknown hospitalization status.
- A Carbon County man, 65-84, unknown hospitalization status.
- A Tooele County man, 65-84, unknown hospitalization status.
State health officials will stop releasing new daily COVID-19 statistics on Thursday. Case counts will then be updated each week on Thursday, via the state's coronavirus online dashboard coronavirus.utah.gov/case-counts/.
