DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – More people who tested positive for the new coronavirus have been added to the state’s total number, according to new data on Sunday.
As of 10:30 a.m., the Iowa Department of Public Health said an additional 280 cases had been reported to the state since the same hour Saturday morning, bringing Iowa’s total to 342,743 people since the pandemic began. The state no longer monitors the number of people who are considered recovered.
No new COVID-19 deaths have been reported to the state in the past 24 hours. The total number of people who died from the virus in Iowa is 5,633.
160 people are hospitalized in Iowa because of COVID-19, a net decrease of 22. 40 of those people are in intensive care units, a net decrease of one. 18 of these patients require the use of a ventilator, a net increase of one. 29 people have recently been admitted to Iowa hospitals in the last 24-hour reporting period, a somewhat lower rate than in the past two days.
A total of 1,076,880 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Iowa so far, an increase of 45,818 from the same time on Friday. 394,565 people completed their vaccination course, either with two-shot vaccines or the Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine.
The tests performed for the first time on 1,546 people were reported to the state in the last 24 hours. The positivity rate for this batch of tests was 18.1%. A total of 1,596,314 people have been tested for the virus since the pandemic began.
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