DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – The number of people hospitalized in Iowa with COVID-19 increased, according to new state data Saturday morning.
As of 10:30 a.m., the Iowa Department of Public Health said 556 people who tested positive for the virus were added to the state’s total, which is now 342,463 since the start of the pandemic. The state no longer monitors the number of people considered to have recovered from the disease.
Three people who died as a result of COVID-19 were reported to state officials as early as Friday morning. 5,633 people have died in Iowa due to the new coronavirus.
182 people are in Iowa hospitals with COVID-19, a net increase of 14. This is the largest one-day increase to date in March. 41 of these people are in intensive care units, a net increase of five. 17 of these people require the use of a fan, a net increase of four. 40 patients were recently admitted due to the disease during the last 24-hour period, a rate similar to the previous day but higher than the previous days.
To date, 1,031,062 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Iowa, an increase of 33,008 from the same time on Friday. 366,371 people have completed the vaccination course, either through the two-shot vaccines or the Johnson & Johnson single vaccine.
The first tests of 3,479 people were reported to the state in the last 24 hours. The positivity rate of this test batch was 16.0%. A total of 1,594,768 individuals have been tested for the virus since the pandemic began.
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