SALT LAKE CITY-Tuesday, updated COVID-19 statistics were published by the Utah Department of Health.
Since statistics have been kept, there have been 18,300 cases of COVID-19 in the Beehive State. This is an increase of 394 cases in the past 24 hours but represents a net decrease of 50 in the same span.
Conversely, there was a net increase of 50 cases represented in Monday’s totals. In essence, this brings Utah to where it was Sunday.
There have been 10,057 recovered cases of COVID-19 in Utah. This is an increase of 194 recoveries in the past 24 hours but a net decrease of 10 recoveries in the same span.
Presently, 54.95 percent of COVID-19 cases are recovered as reflected in Tuesday’s totals.
There are presently 8,080 active cases of COVID-19 in Utah in the past 24 hours. This represents an increase of 195 in the past 24 hours but a net decrease of 44 active cases in the same span. This caused the active case percentage to slightly rise to 44.1 percent of all those who have had COVID-19 in Utah.
There have been 302,276 total tests in Utah. This is a net increase of 2,964 in the past 24 hours. This caused the overall positive test percentage to officially exceed the 6 percent plateau for the first time in state history. The official positive test percentage checked in at 6.05 percent Tuesday.
However, the 24-hour positive test percentage dropped for the fifth time in the past six days, checking in at 13.29 percent Tuesday. Monday’s total was at 15.03 percent.
There have been 1,226 recorded hospitalizations for COVID-19 since statistics began being kept in the Beehive State.
This represents a net increase of 34 cases in the past 24 hours. However, current hospitalizations have decreased to 166, a net decrease of 5 in the past 24 hours. This precipitously caused the current hospitalization percentage to drop to 13.5 percent. Monday, the current COVID-19 hospitalization percentage was 14.3 percent.
Of greater importance, per comments from state epidemiologist Dr. Angela C. Dunn last Friday, are the percent of ICU beds occupied at hospitals.
Tuesday’s totals attest that 62.1 percent of all ICU beds at hospitals are occupied. Of the 166 current hospitalizations for COVID-19, 77 of those (46.3 percent) are in ICU at hospitals.
Should ICU occupancy approach or exceed 80 percent, this would cause an overflow of Utah’s resources, Dunn claims.
Wasatch County, meanwhile, continues to enjoy propitious circumstances in the recovery process.
Per information from Wasatch County Health Department Health Education and Media Relations Coordinator Trudy Brereton, 285 of Wasatch County’s 387 COVID-19 cases (73.6 percent) are recovered.
There remain 19 hospitalizations and 3 deaths in Wasatch County from COVID-19 per Tuesday’s totals. The most recent death occurred last Friday, June 19.
There were 5 new deaths in Utah from COVID-19. This raises the death total to 163 in the Beehive State. The death rate remains well below 1 percent, checking in Tuesday at 0.008907 percent, the lowest in the nation.
