SALT LAKE CITY-Saturday, conditions concerning COVID-19 began to improve around the Beehive State, per the daily release of the statistics from the Utah Department of Health.
Saturday’s tallies attest that 3,948 positive tests for COVID-19 in Utah have occurred. This is an increase of 166 cases from Friday’s numbers but this is a -4 decrease in the amount of positive cases from Friday.
With 90,206 tests for COVID-19 tests having been administered in Utah presently, this is an increase of 5,509 tests in the past 24 hours. However, because a decrease in the total cases in the past 24 hours, the positive percentage rate in Utah shrank to 4.37 percent.
Since April 16, when the positive percentage rate increased to 5.4 percent in the Beehive State, the percentage rate has shrunk every day thereafter, giving state medical personnel hope that the curve is flattening.
Sadly, there are now 329 hospitalizations from COVID-19 in Utah. This is an increase of 14 from Friday’s totals.
There are also two more deaths in Utah, bringing this total to 41 presently.
There are currently 132 COVID-19 cases in Wasatch County with six hospitalizations having occurred and one death. This death occurred on April 10.
