Utah reaches 300 deaths from COVID-19 and has another 508 cases of the disease

Angelina Lockhart checks in a patient at TestUtah’s COVID-19 mobile testing unit at Provo Towne Centre on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. The units will increase testing access to communities across the state most impacted by the virus. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News

Coronavirus has killed five times as many people in Utah than flu in other years, health official says

SALT LAKE CITY — COVID-19 has killed five times as many people in Utah in the five months it has been around than an entire eight-month season of the flu in other years.

“There is so much we don’t know that makes it more dangerous and unpredictable moving forward,” Dr. Angela Dunn, state epidemiologist with the Utah Department of Health, said during Thursday’s briefing.

Nine more people have died with COVID-19, bringing the total number of lives lost to the novel coronavirus in Utah to 300.

The health department announced another 502 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. The total number of people in Utah who have become infected is 39,696.

The latest breakdown of Utah cases, hospitalizations and deaths by health district:

• Salt Lake County, 18,817; 1,224 hospitalized; 171 deaths.
• Utah County, 7,584; 354 hospitalized; 33 deaths.
• Davis County, 2,859; 160 hospitalized; 13 deaths.
• Southwest Utah, 2,855; 159 hospitalized; 24 deaths.
• Weber-Morgan, 2,508; 159 hospitalized; 25 deaths.
• Bear River (Box Elder, Cache, Rich), 2,141; 88 hospitalized; 5 deaths.
• Summit County, 683; 52 hospitalized; 1 death.
• San Juan County, 606; 76 hospitalized; 22 deaths.
• Tooele County, 524; 26 hospitalized; 0 deaths.
• Wasatch County, 523; 20 hospitalized; 4 deaths.
• Central Utah, 363; 20 hospitalized; 2 deaths.
• TriCounty (Uinta Basin), 151; 8 hospitalized; 0 deaths.
• Southeast Utah, 82; 5 hospitalized; 0 deaths.

This story will be updated.

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