SALT LAKE CITY-Thursday, COVID-19 statistics were updated for Utah from the Utah Department of Health.
There have now been 15,839 recorded cases of COVID-19 in the Beehive State. This is an increase of 495 cases in the past 24 hours and a net increase of 88 in the same span.
For the first time in three days, there are more than 100 new recovered cases from the virus in Utah. There are now 8,786 recovered cases from COVID-19 in Utah. This is an increase of 234 recoveries in the past 24 hours and a net increase of 152.
However, the recovery percentage dropped to 55.47 percent because there are 258 new active cases in the Beehive State. Nevertheless, this is a net decrease of 63 active cases in the past 24 hours. The current active case percentage is 43.56 percent.
There have now been 282,685 total tests administered for COVID-19 in the Beehive State. This is an increase of 3,993 tests in the past 24 hours.
This raised the overall positive test percentage to 5.603 percent. However, over the course of the past 24 hours, the positive test percentage dropped to 12.3 percent. It checked in at 13.6 percent for Wednesday’s totals.
Since statistics have been kept for COVID-19 in Utah, there have been 1,120 hospitalizations. This represents a net increase of 18 in the past 24 hours.
However, the current hospitalization percentage stayed stable, slightly increasing to 13.4 percent as there are 150 current hospitalizations from COVID-19 in the Beehive State.
There are three new deaths from the virus in Utah, bringing the net total to 152 deaths.
Two of these were deaths at long-term healthcare facilities: a woman from Salt Lake County between the ages of 65 and 84 and a Washington County man between the ages of 65 and 84.
The other death was a San Juan County man between the ages of 45 and 64. It is not certain if he was hospitalized at the time of death or not.
Wasatch County had six new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the net total to 368. There is one new hospitalization in Wasatch County from Wednesday-Thursday, raising the net total to 18. There remain two deaths in Wasatch County from COVID-19, the most recent of which occurred May 31.
