The total number of people in Iowa who have died from COVID-19 remains unchanged

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – For the second day in a row, state officials have not added people completely dead due to the new coronavirus.

As of 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning, the Iowa Department of Public Health said 1,871 people who tested positive for COVID-19 have been added to the state total since Friday time. in the morning, which is now 265,986 A total of 212,384 people are estimated to be recovering from the disease.

Zero people were added to the total number of deaths in the state by COVID-19. The total number of people who have died in Iowa due to the disease remains unchanged at 3,451.

679 people are hospitalized due to the disease, a net decrease of 22 in the last 24 hours. 140 of these people are in intensive care units, a net increase of four. 77 of these patients require the use of one ventilator, a net decrease of three. 95 people were recently admitted to Iowa hospitals in the past 24 hours.

5,858 more people obtained test results reported by public and private laboratories in the last 24 hours. The positivity rate of this test batch was 31.9%. The positivity rate calculated with this method may differ from the number of the state coronavirus dashboard, due to the fact that the state only releases the number of individuals who gave positive or negative for the first time, not the total number of tests, including people you’ve tried more than once.

A total of 1,311,808 people in Iowa have been tested since the beginning of the pandemic.

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