Here are the latest numbers.
Total number of COVID-19 cases: 390,289
Total reported people tested: 2,449,866
Vaccines administered: 1,708,002
Total COVID-19 hospitalizations: 15,770
Current COVID-19 hospitalizations: 122
Single-day high for reported cases: 4,672 (Dec. 31)
Single-day high for reported deaths: 30 (Dec. 17 and Jan. 21)
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Even though Utah’s statewide mask mandate ended Saturday, an Intermountain Healthcare infectious diseases doctor said Friday that face coverings along with vaccinations against COVID-19 remain key to staying safe from the deadly virus.
Utah health officials surpassed 1.7 million total vaccines administered Sunday. That includes 1,099,828 people who have received at least one dose, and 679,331 people who are fully vaccinated.
See My Smile, a grassroots organization backed by conservative parent groups across the state, set up rallies at school district offices all over Utah on Saturday to encourage parents and children to defy the rul
SALT LAKE CITY Utah s culture and arts industry lost over $77 million from the restrictions placed on the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report shows, but officials are holding out hope for a better year. When we closed the museum in March 2020 to help slow the spread of COVID-19, we thought we d be dark for just a week or two. By mid-April, however, it was clear our temporary closure was anything but and we began to prepare for an extended shutdown, according to Jason Cryan, executive director of the Natural History Museum of Utah.
According to the 2020 State of Utah Culture Report presented last week by the Utah Cultural Alliance and the Utah Department of Heritage and Arts, about $77 million in arts-related revenue was lost between March and November 2020. State data also showed more than 3,000 jobs in the culture industry were lost or affected by COVID-19, and about 22,000 independent contractors lost work.
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The proposal from Sen. Kirk Cullimore, R-Sandy, would put $30 million toward a relief program for Utah-based businesses with fewer than 250 employees that can demonstrate they experienced a loss in revenue due to COVID-19.
“The reality is that a lot of these businesses were doing and would have been doing just fine but for government intervention,” Cullimore told the Senate Business and Labor Committee, which also heard the bill on Tuesday. “And it’s because of that government intervention that I feel it appropriate that there be some government intervention, again, to help them out of the mess.”
The program would be administered by the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) and would prioritize companies that have lost 90% of their revenue and can demonstrate an inability to secure similar government funding over the past year.
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