On Monday, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare reported 527 new cases and 12 new deaths. In addition to 708 cases announced over the weekend, that brings the statewide total to 160,033 known cases and 1,681 deaths.

Hospitalization rates are trending downward. On Saturday, there were 169 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 and 53 in intensive care.

The Department of Health and Welfare will give an update on the status of vaccines on Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 Mountain Time, 1:30 Pacific Time. Idaho still remains near the bottom of states in the amount of vaccine received per capita.

As of this morning, 78,805 people have received at least one dose of the vaccine. One of those was people is Governor Brad Little, who received his first dose today.