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Coronavirus updates: Salt Lake Twilight Concert Series cancels August show; change to green could come to Utah in June - KSL.com
May 27, 2020 2 mins, 51 secs

SALT LAKE CITY — Here are the latest coronavirus-related updates from Utah and around the world.

Nine Salt Lake County recreation centers will reopen Monday as businesses and other facilities begin slowly reopening after COVID-19 closures, according to a Wednesday news release.

Utah’s number of COVID-19 cases has increased by 86 from Tuesday with four new reported deaths, according to the Utah Department of Health.

Wednesday’s totals give Utah 8,706 total confirmed cases, with 716 total hospitalizations and 105 total deaths from the disease6

Previously, there were 8,620 cases in the state.

Of the 200,626 total tests conducted in Utah so far, 4.3% were positive for COVID-19.

Utah State University will resume in-person classes for the fall 2020 semester, the school announced Wednesday.

“Our students have responded to this situation with grace and resilience, and we are excited to again see them come to our campuses,” USU President Noelle Cockett said in a news release.

“We will be releasing more details about fall semester over the next several weeks, and students and their parents should monitor university communications for that information, knowing that USU will be ready.”.

Southern Utah University will resume in-person classes this fall at its Cedar City campus, the school announced Wednesday.

“This is a significant step in getting back to a sense of normalcy,” university President Scott L Wyatt said in a news release.

The university's plan to resume classes on campus for the fall 2020 semester includes plans for social distancing, diagnostic testing and contact tracing, according to the release.

The plan is dependent on the continued improvement of COVID-19 conditions in Utah, the release said.

The Salt Lake City Twilight Concert Series has canceled a Decemberists concert previously scheduled for Aug.

"We remain committed to bolstering our diverse artistic community within Salt Lake City and more information on the 2020 Twilight Concert Series will be coming soon," organizers said in an Instagram post

Not even two weeks into the yellow “low-risk” level, a state official said the latest data on coronavirus cases is moving in the right direction for Utah to transition to the “new normal” level as early as June

“We’re headed towards green because the data tells us that Utahns by and large are being responsible,” said Derek Miller, president and CEO of the Salt Lake Chamber and the chair of Utah’s COVID-19 Economic Response Task Force

The National Women’s Soccer League announced Wednesday that the state will host the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup, a 25-game tournament at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman

The tournament will bring players from all nine NWSL teams to the state to live in hotels in the Salt Lake City area, or an “NWSL Village,” and to train at the Zions Bank Training Center in Herriman and America First Credit Union Field in Sandy

Players will be tested for COVID-19 before traveling to Utah and will continue to be monitored during their stay in the state

Utah lawmakers kicked off the process of slashing as much as $2 billion from the state budget to deal with the economic hit from the COVID-19 pandemic with a four-hour virtual meeting Tuesday detailing a long list of proposed cuts to the health, human services and workforce services departments

Other appropriations subcommittees are set to meet Wednesday and Thursday but the final recommendations for budget cuts headed to a special session of the Utah Legislature on June 18 and 19 will come from the Executive Appropriations Committee, which asked each subcommittee come up with a range of proposed reductions

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