COVID-19 cases surge 18.6% in Utah

New coronavirus cases leaped in Utah in the week ending Sunday, rising 18.6% as 1,916 cases were reported. The previous week had 1,615 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19.

Utah ranked fourth among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week coronavirus cases in the United States decreased 1.5% from the week before, with 99,382 cases reported. With 0.96% of the country's population, Utah had 1.93% of the country's cases in the last week. Across the country, 16 states had more cases in the latest week than they did in the week before.

Many communities did not report data in a timely manner around Memorial Day, making week-to-week comparisons inaccurate.

Within Utah, the worst weekly outbreaks on a per-person basis were in Davis, Utah and Tooele counties. Adding the most new cases overall were Salt Lake County, with 566 cases; Utah County, with 399 cases; and Davis County, with 257. Weekly case counts rose in four counties from the previous week. The worst increases from the prior week's pace were in Utah, Salt Lake and Davis counties.

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Utah ranked 34th among states in share of people receiving at least one shot, with 46.4% of its residents at least partially vaccinated. The national rate is 52.4%, a USA TODAY analysis of CDC data shows. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which are the most used in the United States, require two doses administered a few weeks apart.

In the week ending Sunday, Utah reported administering another 55,170 vaccine doses, including 20,207 first doses. In the previous week, the state administered 55,614 vaccine doses, including 25,574 first doses. In all, Utah reported it has administered 2,673,462 total doses.

Across Utah, cases fell in three counties, with the best declines in Wasatch, San Juan and Tooele counties.

In Utah, 12 people were reported dead of COVID-19 in the week ending Sunday. In the week before that, 10 people were were reported dead.

A total of 409,558 people in Utah have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and 2,323 people have died from the disease, Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the United States 33,461,982 people have tested positive and 599,769 people have died.

Note: For Utah, Johns Hopkins University reports data mostly by health department, such as the combined Weber-Morgan agency. Weber and Morgan counties may be marked as having no cases. The county-level data for Utah is considerably worse than it is for any other state, and county comparisons may be wildly misleading.

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The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Johns Hopkins University and the Centers for Disease Control. If you have questions about the data or the story, contact Mike Stucka at mstucka@gannett.com.