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

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – For the second day in a row, state officials have not added to the total in Iowa recently reported people who died from the new coronavirus.

On Saturday, at 10:30 a.m., the Iowa Department of Public Health said 1,871 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were added to the state total at the same time on Friday morning, which now stands at 265,986 . A total of 212,384 people are considered to have recovered from the disease.

To the total number of deaths in the state of COVID-19 were added zero people. The total number of people in Iowa who died from 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 a ventilator, a net decrease of three. 95 people have recently been admitted to Iowa hospitals in the last 24 hours.

Another 5,858 people had the results of tests reported by public and private laboratories in the last 24 hours. The positivity rate for this batch of tests was 31.9%. The positivity rate calculated using this method may differ from the number on the state coronavirus dashboard, due to the fact that the state only releases the number of people who were positive or negative for the first time, not the total number of tests, including those who tested repeatedly.

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

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