SALT LAKE CITY — Just 259 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death from the virus were reported Monday by the Utah Department of Health, as federal health officials are now saying fully vaccinated Americans can gather together indoors without wearing masks or social distancing.
The recommendations issued Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also say that once Americans have been fully vaccinated, they don’t need to wear masks to visit the household of unvaccinated relatives or others, as long as no one there is at an increased risk for contracting the virus.
However, even those who received their final vaccine dose at least two weeks ago still should wear a mask, social distance and avoid crowds and poorly ventilated spaces in public, when gathering with unvaccinated people from more than one household and when visiting someone whose medical condition makes them vulnerable.
The CDC also continues to recommend that Americans delay travel.
There was an increase of 2,087 vaccine doses administered in the state since Sunday, a number that is expected to climb as some 700,000 more Utahns are now eligible, including those 16 and older with an expanded list of specified medication conditions along with everyone 50 and older.
To date, nearly 858,000 Utahns have received at least one dose of vaccine.
The rolling seven-day average for positive tests is 518 per day, and there were daily increases of 3,083 Utahns tested, and 5,530 tests conducted. The rolling seven-day average for percent positivity is 4.38% when all test results are counted, and 9.06% when the results of multiple tests by an individual within 90 days are excluded.
The number of people hospitalized in Utah with COVID-19 is 193, and the state’s death toll has reached 1,977 with the loss reported Monday of a Washington County man, between 65-84, who was hospitalized at the time of his death.
This story will be updated.
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