Utah sees another 301 new COVID-19 cases, but no new deaths on Sunday

Dijanette Alcaraz, 12, is tested for COVID-19 by the Salt Lake County Health Department in the parking lot of the Maverik Center in West Valley on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. The free testing was set up for residents of Kearns, Magna, Taylorsville, West Valley City or the west side of Salt Lake City. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY — The number of newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Utah declined again from a day earlier, with 301 new cases reported Sunday and no new deaths.

A day earlier, state health officials reported 369 new cases.

A total of 49,115 in the Beehive State have tested positive for the novel coronavirus so far, the Utah Department of Health reported. That’s out of 624,836 people tested; Sunday’s report included 2,473 new test results.

The rolling seven-day average of confirmed cases dipped down to 349 per day, with a rate of positive tests at 8.4%.

State health officials reported no new deaths from a day earlier, when it said the illness due to the novel coronavirus claimed the lives of two Salt Lake County residents of long-term care facilities. They were a man older than 65 and a woman older than 85. Since the pandemic struck Utah, 385 people have died of COVID-19.

Statewide 27 more people were hospitalized, up to a total of 2,926 since the beginning of the outbreak in Utah. The number of people currently being treated in a hospital is now 138, health officials noted.

The health department estimates that 40,831 people with known infections have recovered after passing more than three weeks since a diagnosis and not having passed away.

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

Salt Lake County: 22,760; 1,477 hospitalized; 224 deaths

Utah County: 10,120; 480 hospitalized; 42 deaths

Davis County: 3,613; 202 hospitalized; 21 deaths

Southwest Utah: 3,454; 196 hospitalized; 26 deaths

Weber-Morgan: 3,150; 197 hospitalized; 28 deaths

Bear River (Box Elder, Cache, Rich): 2,482; 125 hospitalized; 9 deaths

Summit County: 810; 53 hospitalized; 1 death

San Juan County: 661; 88 hospitalized; 27 deaths

Tooele County: 641; 31 hospitalized; 0 deaths

Wasatch County: 615; 25 hospitalized; 4 deaths

Central Utah: 484; 29 hospitalized, 2 deaths

TriCounty (Uinta Basin): 197; 17 hospitalized; 0 deaths

Southeast Utah 128; 6 hospitalized; 1 death

from Deseret News https://ift.tt/2Etelmu