(Nurse Travis Langston prepares to administer a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy on Thursday, April 22, 2021. Photo: Spenser Heaps, Deseret News)
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Department of Health reported 1,491 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, for a total of 458,589 since the pandemic began.
In addition, the department reported 463 Utahns required hospitalization for COVID-19 on Thursday. Another 10 Utahns died from coronavirus.
Utah health officials said of the 1,491 new cases, 358 occurred among school-age children. There were 160 new cases among children ages 5 through 10, 73 new cases among children ages 11-13 and 125 new cases among teens ages 14-18.
8,907 more Utahns received the COVID-19 vaccine in the latest health department numbers. To date, health officials in the state have administered 3,221,165 vaccine doses.
According to the health department, for the last 28 days, the risk of coming down with COVID-19 is 4.6 times greater for unvaccinated Utahns. For hospitalization, the risk to the unvaccinated is 6.4 times greater than that of vaccinated Utahns. And health officials report unvaccinated Utahns face 4.9 times greater risk of death than vaccinated Utahns.
According to the health department, the rolling seven-day average for positive COVID-19 tests in Utah is 1,153 per day.
Health officials report an increase of 11,411 Utahns tested for COVID-19 since the day before, and an increase of 17,876 tests performed.
That means the rolling seven-day average of people testing positive in Utah is 15.4%, and the rolling seven-day average of total positive test results is 10.8%.
COVID-19 coronavirus spreads person to person, similar to the common cold and the flu. So, to prevent it from spreading:
Utah’s Coronavirus Information
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Utah Coronavirus Information Line – 1-800-456-7707
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention