Utah reports 590 new COVID-19 cases, 13 additional deaths

Florence Conover, of Sandy, right, receives a COVID-19 vaccination at the Mountain America Exposition Center in Sandy on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Thirteen new COVID-19 deaths were reported on Tuesday in Utah. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY — There were 560 new COVID-19 cases reported by the Utah Department of Health on Tuesday, along with 13 additional deaths from the virus.

Over the past year, Utah has seen 375,669 COVID-19 cases and Utah’s death toll is nearing 2,000. With the 13 additional deaths reported Tuesday, which includes nine that occurred before Feb. 1, the number of Utahns who have lost their lives to the virus has now reached 1,990.

Monday, the first day Utahns 50 to 64, as well as those with some additional medical conditions, were eligible for vaccinations, another 20,737 doses were administered, bringing the total of first and second doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and single doses of the newest vaccine available from Johnson & Johnson, to 878,487,

The state has been vaccinating front-line hospital health care workers since mid-December, adding all health care workers, long-term care facility residents and staff, K-12 teachers and school staffs, and then older Utahns as well as those with a broader list of specified medical conditions.

COVID-19 testing continues throughout the state, with the rolling seven-day average for positive tests at 529 per day. There were 6,185 Utahns tested and 16,450 tests conducted in Utah since Monday. Nearly 2.26 million Utahns have undergone more than 3.9 million tests.

The rolling seven-day average for percent positivity of those tests is 4.24% when all tests are included in the calculation, the state’s preferred method, and 8.8% when multiple tests by an individual over the past 90 days are excluded.

Currently, 187 people are hospitalized in Utah with COVID-19. The latest deaths reported are:

• A Juab County woman, between the ages of 45 and 64, who was not hospitalized at the time of death.
• A Salt Lake County boy, between 1 and 14 years old, who was hospitalized at time of death.
• Two Salt Lake County women, older than 85, long-term care facility residents.
• Three Salt Lake County men, 65-84, one hospitalized, one not hospitalized, one a long-term care facility resident.
• A Utah County man, 65-84, not hospitalized.
• A Utah County man, older than 85, not hospitalized.
• A Washington County man, 65-84, long-term care facility resident.
• A Washington County man, older than 85, long-term care facility resident.
• A Weber County man, 65-84, long-term care facility resident.
• A Weber County woman, 45-64, long-term care facility resident.

This story will update.

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