And, overall, UDOH hasn’t reported this many cases in a day since July 24, Pioneer Day, when the daily tally was 863 cases.

From June 25 to July 30, the seven-day average was above 500 cases per day, peaking at 669 a day on July 22.

The person who died was a Salt Lake County man, older than 85 and not hospitalized at the time of his death.

Overall, that brings the total cases in schools this fall to 293.

For K-12, Canyons School District has the highest total cases in Salt Lake County.

The spike came after it previously reported 258 cases on Friday, giving it the highest total and fastest spread.

Utah County, overall, led the state in new cases, posting 309 Wednesday, a new single-day record for the county.

That represents 41% of Wednesday’s new cases, even though Utah County contains about 20% of the state’s population.

And Salt Lake County, the state’s most populous, recorded 272 of Wednesday’s new cases, the most in a day since July 25 — in the middle of the summer surge.

Salt Lake County’s seven-day average of new cases is 211.1 per day.

The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, meanwhile, has had 241 cases for a campus of 62,000

With the cases in all schools in the state, the patients have a median age of 16