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DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – The Iowa Department of Public Health reported Wednesday that an additional 1,335 Iowa residents have tested positive for COVID-19, and 62 more deaths have been reported.
As of 10:30 a.m., state data shows a total of 307,568 people have tested positive for the virus and 4,394 people have died with the virus in Iowa since the start of the pandemic.
The state lists COVID-19 as the underlying cause of 40007 of the reported deaths, while the virus has contributed to 387 of the reported deaths.
A total of 270,555 people in Iowa have recovered from the virus since the start of the pandemic.
There are currently 474 Iowans hospitalized with COVID-19, with 85 more people having been admitted in the past 24 hours. There are 86 people in the intensive care unit and 36 on ventilators.
According to data the state makes available, 4,161 people have been tested for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. A total of 1,430,372 tests have been carried out since the start of the pandemic. According to these data, the positivity rate in the last 24 hours was 32.1%.
All 5 state-run Test Iowa sites were closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday. This includes all sites in Linn and Black Hawk counties. There could be a drop in COVID-19 data due to the shutdown.
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