CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – Thousands more in Iowa have completed the coronavirus vaccination course, while the average of seven days of new cases a day is at its highest level since late February, according to new state data.
As of 10:30 a.m. Saturday, the Iowa Department of Public Health said 531 people who tested positive for COVID-19 had been added to the state total since the same time on Friday, which is now 349,141 people since the pandemic began.
Eight people who died with COVID-19 have been reported to the state since Friday morning. A total of 5,716 people have died from the virus.
201 people are hospitalized in Iowa due to COVID-19, a net decrease of six in the last 24 hours. 43 of these people are in intensive care units, a net decline of three. 12 of these patients require the use of one ventilator, a net decrease of two. 33 people were recently admitted to Iowa hospitals with the virus in the last 24-hour period, a figure slightly lower than the 33 in the previous period.
To date, 1,396,382 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Iowa, an increase of 42,347 from the same time on Friday. 543,193 people have completed the vaccination course, either through two-shot vaccines or the Johnson & Johnson single vaccine, an increase of 18,245.
The first tests of 2,703 individuals were reported to the state in the last 24 hours. The positivity rate of this batch of tests was 19.6%, significantly lower than the 30.4% of the previous day. A total of 1,628,836 individuals have been tested for the virus since the pandemic began.
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