Nearly 10,000 cases of coronavirus in Utah

As of Monday, June 1st Utah has 9,999 positive cases of COVID-19. This is an increase of 202 cases from yesterday, and a daily rate increase of 2.1%, according to health officials.

There have been a total of 113 total deaths; no new deaths were announced Monday.

The total number of people tested is 218,112 This is an increase of 4,198 tests from Sunday. The health department says the rate of positives is at 4.6% of the total tested. 

There have been 789 people hospitalized since the pandemic started, which is an increase of 14 since Sunday. There are 95 positive COVID-19 cases currently hospitalized.

6,251 of those who tested positive for COVID-19 are considered “recovered”. The health department defines a recovered person as a case with a diagnosis date of more than three weeks ago, who has not passed away, is considered recovered.