Summit and Wasatch counties have reached new COVID-19 milestones according to new numbers released Saturday by the Utah Department of Health.
Summit County has 400 confirmed cases of the disease, up four from 396 Friday. Wasatch County has 200 confirmed cases, also up four from 196 Friday.
One more person has been hospitalized in Summit County, bringing the number to 35 overall who have been in the hospital since the pandemic began, while Wasatch County’s number of hospitalizations remained at nine.
One person died from COVID-19 since Friday. The patient was a Salt Lake County female between the ages of 18-59 who lived in a long-term care facility. There has been a total of 78 deaths in Utah due to the coronavirus.
There are 7,068 total COVID-19 cases in Utah, an increase of 155, or 2.2% from Friday. 166,774 COVID-19 tests have been administered in the state. The rate of positive results is 4.2% of the total tested.
A case with a diagnosis date of more than three weeks ago who has not passed away is considered “recovered.” 3,896 of Utah’s cases are recovered.
