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Four more Utahns have died from COVID-19 and another 295 people have come down with the virus, the Utah Department of Health reported Monday.
The four fatalities bring the state’s death tole from COVID-19 to 143 people. The four new deaths are:
• A Salt Lake County man, between ages 60 and 85, who was the resident of a long-term care facility.
• A San Juan County man, between ages 18 and 60, who was in the hospital when he died.
• A Washington County man, between ages 18 and 60, who was hospitalized when he died.
• Another Washington County man, between ages 60 and 85, who was hospitalized when he died.
The new COVID-19 cases boosts the state’s total since the pandemic began to 14,608.
Monday’s case tally is a hair above the 293 the state has been averaging for the past seven days. During that week, from June 9 to 15, the state has seen 2,049 new positive cases. There have been 26,078 lab tests processed in that time, putting the positive rate for those seven days at 7.9%
The week before, June 2-8, the daily average was 303 cases, and the positive rate for the week was 10%.
In Monday’s report, UDOH announced 13 more Utahns were hospitalized with COVID-19, for a total of 1,041 since the pandemic struck. The number hospitalized on Sunday was 137 people — 72 of them in intensive care units, 65 in other units.
According to data included on the state health department’s COVID-19 online dashboard for the first time Monday, 61.9% of the state’s intensive care unit beds are occupied, and 50.5% of non-ICU hospital beds are filled. The dashboard also has added data about outbreaks outside of long-term care facilities, seven-day rolling averages of cases per day, and breakdowns of preexisting conditions by age.
Utah labs have processed tests for another 5,225 people in a day, according to UDOH’s Monday report. That ups the total number of people in the state tested to 272,938, with a total positive rate of 5.4%.
The state has had 8,380 people recover from COVID-19 — which, by UDOH’s definition, means going three weeks since being diagnosed and still being alive.
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