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Saturday brings Utah’s second-highest daily increase in COVID-19 cases - Deseret News
Oct 24, 2020 1 min, 7 secs

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah health officials reported another 1,608 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, marking the Beehive State’s second-highest daily increase in COVID-19 cases.

Utah this week also surpassed 100,000 cases and 1 million people tested since the start of the pandemic.

Data regarding whether people are as contagious the second time they contract the virus is still limited, Goldstein said, but “we could hypothesize that they would be less so” because the virus won’t be able to replicate as much as it did the first time.

But it’s important to know that with viruses “everything is on a spectrum” for different people, Goldstein said.

Now nearly every county in Utah is seeing rates of the disease considered “very high” by the state health department over the last two weeks, meaning more than 200 per 100,000 people have tested positive for the disease within the last two weeks in those counties.

But some communities are seeing much higher rates than the threshold, with 600 or more cases per 100,000 people within the last two weeks.

Throughout the state, Smithfield, Farmington, Provo and Brigham Young University, Herriman, Eagle Mountain and Cedar Valley, Lehi, Spanish Fork, Blanding, Monticello, Nephi/Mona and south Utah County are also seeing 600 or more cases per 100,000 people.

Now 103,117 cases have been confirmed in Utah out of 1,022,809 people tested during the pandemic, with an overall positive rate of 10.1%.

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