For third day in row, Utah reports no new COVID-19 deaths

Luis Espinoza, a third-grade teacher at Esperanza Elementary School, gets a COVID-19 test at Esperanza Elementary School in West Valley City on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. All faculty and employees who work at Esperanza Elementary School were asked to get tested in preparation for the school’s opening on Aug. 24. Any employees who get a positive test result will quarantine at home for two weeks with full pay. The Utah Department of Health, in collaboration with the Consulate of Mexico in Salt Lake City and Esperanza Elementary School, invited the community to be tested for COVID-19, free of charge. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News

State maintaining rolling average below 400 new cases daily

SALT LAKE CITY — For the third day in a row, Utah reported no additional COVID-19 deaths on Monday.

A relatively low number of new cases were also confirmed compared to the previous six days. Of 4,348 tests reported, 253 were positive — a 5.8% rate, according to the Utah Department of Health.

Now 52,107 people have tested positive for the disease out of 659,855 tested in Utah, an overall positive rate of 7.9%.

Though the previous several days brought a slight uptick in cases, the state has maintained a rolling average below 400, which Gov. Gary Herbert early in August challenged residents to do by September.

The rolling seven-day average for new cases is 388 per day, and the average positive testing rate is 8.9%. Currently, 125 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 in Utah, nine more than on Sunday. Just under 3,100 people have required hospitalization for the disease in Utah since the outbreak began.

Utah’s death toll stands at 407.

Nearly 44,000 of the state’s cases are considered recovered after passing the three-week point since their diagnoses, meaning about 8,100 still have active infections.

This story will be updated.

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