DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – The Iowa Department of Public Health on Wednesday reported 1,335 more Iowans who tested positive for COVID-19 and an additional 62 deaths were recorded.
At 10:30 a.m., state data show that a total of 307,568 people have tested positive for the virus and 4,394 people have died from the virus in Iowa since the pandemic began.
The state lists COVID-19 as the underlying cause of 4,0007 of the reported deaths, while the virus contributed in 387 of the reported deaths.
A total of 270,555 people in Iowa have recovered from the virus since the pandemic began.
There are currently 474 Yowans hospitalized with COVID-19, with 85 more people admitted in the last 24 hours. There are 86 people in the ICU and 36 in fans.
According to data provided by the state, 4,161 people have been tested for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. A total of 1,430,372 tests have been performed since the beginning of the pandemic. According to these data, the positivity rate in the last 24 hours was 32.1 percent.
The five state-operated Iowa Test sites were closed Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This includes all places in Linn and Black Hawk counties. There could be a decline in COVID-19 data due to closure.
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