CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – Thousands more people in Iowa have completed their coronavirus vaccination course, while the seven-day average of new cases a day is at its highest level since the end of February, according to new state data.
On Saturday, at 10:30 a.m., the Iowa Department of Public Health said 531 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were added to the state total from the same time on Friday, which now stands at 349,141 people. since the pandemic began.
Eight people who died with COVID-19 were reported to the state on Friday morning. A total of 5,716 people died from the virus.
201 people are hospitalized in Iowa because of COVID-19, a net decrease of six in the last 24 hours. 43 of these people are in intensive care units, a net decrease of three. 12 of these patients require the use of one ventilator, a net decrease of two. 33 people have recently been admitted to Iowa hospitals with the virus in the last 24-hour reporting period, a slightly smaller number than in the previous period.
A total of 1,396,382 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Iowa so far, an increase of 42,347 from the same time on Friday. 543,193 people completed their vaccination course, either with the two-shot vaccines or the Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine, an increase of 18,245.
The tests performed for the first time on 2,703 people were reported to the state in the last 24 hours. The positivity rate for this batch of tests was 19.6%, significantly lower than the 30.4% of the previous day. A total of 1,628,836 people have been tested for the virus since the pandemic began.
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