The Utah Department of Health on Thursday, for the second day in a row, reported more than 3,000 new COVID-19 cases since the day before. Including seven more deaths.
Before the holidays, new daily case counts had been trending down, but this week they shot back up by a large margin."After weeks of steady declines in cases and hospitalizations caused by the Delta variant, Omicron has arrived. As expected, case numbers are increasing exponentially as this variant is far more contagious," the governor said in a series of tweets.
The health department reported, 14,378 new doses of vaccine had been administered statewide since Wednesday. The rolling 7-day average for positive tests is 1,898 per day. The rolling 7-day average for percent positivity of"people over people" is 12.4%. The rolling 7-day average for percent positivity of"tests over tests" is 8.4%.
The health department reported there are 436 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19. That's not a significant increase but often hospitalization numbers are delayed by a couple of days.Case statistics for the seven newly announced death are as follows: The health department noted: One death previously reported yesterday has been removed. A man between 45-64 from Tooele County.
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