DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) -The Iowa Department of Public Health reported 74 more deaths related to COVID-19 and 1177 new cases of the virus in Iowa on Saturday.
As of 12:30 PM, the state has reported a total of 318,558 cases and 4,651 deaths related to COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
The state lists COVID-19 as the underlying cause of 4,236 of the reported deaths, while the virus contributed to 415 of the reported deaths.
A total of 281,462 people in Iowa have recovered from the virus since the pandemic began.
Hospitalizations and ventilator use decreased over the past 24 hours. The state reported that a total of 376 people are hospitalized with the virus in Iowa.
That low figure of the 383 reported Friday.
Over the past 24 hours, 48 more people have been admitted to Iowa hospitals with the virus. There are 84 patients with viruses in the ICU and 31 patients with ventilators.
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