SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Department of Health's COVID-19 report for Tuesday shows an increase of 2,899 confirmed cases—bringing the state's total to 314,817—and 27 additional deaths.
Wednesday's report also includes 2,289 "backfilled" cases, which are cases that were identified as early as June 2020, but were not previously included in Utah's case counts due to incomplete or unverified address information for the person who tested positive.
Beginning Wednesday, the Utah Department of Health will include cases with incomplete or unverified addresses in its reports unless or until the case can be verified as a non-Utah resident.
So far, 1,855,385 people in Utah have been tested for the disease. The state's rolling seven-day average for the number of positive tests is 2,840 per day, and the seven-day average for the percent of positive tests is 27.8.
A total of 124,884 vaccines have now been administered in Utah.
566 people in Utah are currently hospitalized with COVID-19.
1,449 people in Utah have died of COVID-19. The 27 deaths announced Wednesday are:
15 males:
- older than 85, Utah County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- between 45-64, Utah County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- between 65-84, Weber County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- between 65-84, Washington County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- older than 85, Washington County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- older than 85, Davis County resident, not hospitalized
- between 65-84, Washington County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- between 65-84, Carbon County resident, not hospitalized
- older than 85, Washington County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- between 65-84, Utah County resident, long-term care facility resident
- between 65-84, Uintah County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- between 65-84, Utah County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- between 65-84, Salt Lake County resident, long-term care facility resident
- between 45-64, Utah County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- between 45-64, Washington County resident, hospitalized at time of death
12 females
- between 65-84, Iron County resident, not hospitalized
- between 65-84, Weber County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- older than 85, Utah County resident, long-term care facility resident
- between 65-84, Tooele County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- between 45-64, Washington County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- between 65-84, Washington County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- between 65-84, Uintah County resident, hospitalized at time of death
- between 65-84, Tooele County resident, long-term care facility resident
- older than 85, Juab County resident, long-term care facility resident
- older than 85, Salt Lake County resident, long-term care facility resident
- older than 85, Washington County resident, not hospitalized
- between 25-44, Washington County resident, hospitalized at time of death
"9 of the 27 deaths being reported today occurred prior to Dec. 23, 2020. The Office of the Medical Examiner conducts thorough investigations of all potential COVID-related deaths, these investigations can take several weeks to complete," UDOH noted in its report Wednesday.