Utah reports 2,500 new COVID-19 cases Friday — and another dozen deaths

Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.On the day that Utah reported its first known case of the so-called “UK variant” of COVID-19, the state recorded more than 2,500 new cases of the coronavirus and another 12 deaths.The Utahn who contracted the coronavirus vari