Utah reports just 221 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths

Utah National Guard soldier Ebbin Wyatt administers a COVID-19 at the Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 8, 2021. | Steve Griffin, Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY — Only 221 new COVID-19 cases and no new deaths from the virus were reported in Utah Monday.

The latest numbers from the Utah Department of Health mean the state has now reached a total of 378,600 positive cases for the novel coronavirus since the start of the pandemic just over a year ago while the death toll remains at 2,027.

At the same time, there have been 1,010,700 vaccine doses administered in the state, a daily increase of 1,671.

Currently, Utahns 50 and older, those with specified medical conditions, health care workers, first responder, long-term care facility residents and staffs and K-12 teachers and school staffs are eligible to be vaccinated. All Utah adults should be added to that list April 1.

The rolling seven-day average for positive tests is 503 per day, and another 3,293 Utahns have been tested and 6,382 tests conducted since Sunday. To date, nearly 2.3 million Utahns have taken more than 4 million tests for the deadly virus.

The rolling seven-day average for the percent of positive tests is 4% when all tests are included in the calculation, the state’s preferred method for helping to determine what level of restrictions are put in place, or 8.2% when multiple tests taken by an individual over the past 90 days are excluded.

There are 164 people hospitalized in Utah with COVID-19, bringing the total hospitalizations for the state to 15,129.

Monday marked the first time since mid-February no new deaths from the virus have been reported. Utah hit the grim milestone of more than 2,000 deaths last Thursday, the first anniversary of the day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, leading to lockdowns and other restrictions around the globe.

This story will be updated.

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