SALT LAKE CITY-Friday, the largest jump in net cases in a single day occurred for COVID-19 in the Beehive State as 343 new cases in the past 24 hours resulted in 9,264 positive cases.
However, of those, 5,920 have recovered, or 63.9 percent of those in Utah who have had COVID-19. There are presently only 3,344 Utahns who have active cases of COVID-19.
Presently, 205,855 total tests for COVID-19 in Utah have been administered. This is an increase of 2,348 Utahns having been tested for the virus in the past 24 hours.
This has resulted in the net positive test percentage in Utah increasing to 4.5 percent.
In the past 24 hours, the net positive test percentage doubled, ballooning to 14.6 percent, from the 7.46 percent representative of Thursday’s totals.
There are presently 753 hospitalizations from COVID-19 in Utah, or an increase of 19 hospitalizations in the past 24 hours.
However, there are presently only 101 current hospitalizations. This means only 13.4 percent of those who have been hospitalized because of COVID-19 are presently hospitalized.
There is one more death from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 107.
This death was a woman over the age of 85 in Salt Lake County who was living in a long-term healthcare facility.
In Wasatch County, things remained stable over the course of the past 24 hours. There are presently 265 cases of COVID-19 in Wasatch County, an increase of six from the previous day’s totals.
There are now 12 hospitalizations in Wasatch County in the past 24 hours, an increase of one. There remains only one death in Wasatch County from COVID-19. This occurred April 10.
