On Tuesday, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare added 282 cases and 14 new deaths to its statewide total. That ends a four day run with no new deaths and brings the total number of cases to 169,866 and total deaths to 1,840.
More than 219,161 Idahoans have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and the state has administered about 93 percent of the vaccines it has received.
On Tuesday, Health and Welfare announced that from now on, vaccine recipients must show proof they either live or work in Idaho to receive a vaccine here. During a media call later that day, Director Dave Jeppesen said about 4,800 people who neither live or work in the state have been vaccinated.
During the briefing, state epidemiologist Dr. Christine Hahn said Idaho has a second confirmed case of the South Africa variant of COVID-19.