DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – The number of people admitted to Iowa with COVID-19 has increased, according to new state data on Saturday morning.
As of 10:30 am, the Iowa Department of Public Health reported that 556 people who tested positive for the virus were added to the state total, which now stands at 342,463 since the pandemic began. The state no longer tracks the number of people considered recovered from the disease.
Three people who died from COVID-19 were reported to state officials at the same time on Friday morning. 5,633 people died in Iowa due to the new coronavirus.
182 people are in Iowa hospitals with COVID-19, a net increase of 14. This is the biggest single-day increase so far in March. 41 of these people are in intensive care units, a net increase of five. 17 of these people require the use of a fan, a net increase of four. 40 patients were admitted recently due to illness in the last 24-hour reporting period, a rate similar to that of the previous day, but higher than the previous several days.
A total of 1,031,062 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Iowa so far, an increase of 33,008 since the same time on Friday. 366,371 people completed their vaccination schedule, either through Johnson & Johnson’s two-dose vaccines or one-dose vaccine.
The first examinations of 3,479 individuals were notified to the state in the past 24 hours. The positivity rate for this batch of tests was 16.0%. A total of 1,594,768 individuals have been tested for the virus since the beginning of the pandemic.
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