Utah Reports 920 New COVID-19 Cases, No New Deaths
Sep 20, 2020, 11:25 AM | Updated: 12:14 pm
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – The Utah Department of Health on Sunday reported 920 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and no new deaths.
The rolling seven-day average for positive tests is at 835 per day, and the recent spike in new cases has pushed the rolling seven-day average for percent of positive lab tests to 13.1%. The state has tested 758,165 people so far, and 63,772 of those tests returned positive.
A total of 966,382 tests have been administered in Utah.
There are currently 141 patients hospitalized with the virus, 59 of which are in intensive care units. Another 46 patients are hospitalized as COVID-19 persons under investigation. UDOH reports 52.3% of all non-ICU beds and 71.3% of all ICU beds in Utah hospitals are currently occupied.
A total of 440 Utahns have died from the virus.
The state is considering 51,410 cases as recovered, meaning those patients received a positive diagnosis more than three weeks ago and they have not died.