DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – According to state data, the total number of people who died from the new coronavirus in Iowa has passed to 3,900 as the number of people tested for the holiday dropped.
The Iowa Department of Public Health said at 10:30 a.m. Saturday that 709 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were added to the state’s total, which now stands at 283,144 people. 243 218 people are considered recovery from the disease.
TestIowa, the state-run testing program, was closed for parts of the New Year holiday. This was probably a contributing factor in the reduced number of people who tested positive and overall. A similar drop in testing, compared to other days, was observed near the Thanksgiving holiday in late November.
An additional 48 people who died from COVID-19 were added in Iowa, which is 3,946 people since the pandemic.
The number of people admitted to the hospital in Iowa due to the illness was 572 as of Saturday morning, a net decrease of three. 119 of the people were in intensive care units, a net increase of two. 60 of the patients require the use of a ventilator, a net decrease of three. 88 additional people were admitted to Iowa hospitals during the 24-hour reporting period, a rate consistent with the last few days’ data.
An additional 2056 people reported the test results by public and private laboratories in the past 24 hours, a significantly lower number than in recent days. The positivity rate for this group of tests was 34.5%, lower than the previous day’s 46.1%. The positivity rate calculated with this method may differ from the number on the coronavirus dashboard of the state because it uses the number of people tested, not the total number of tests, including people who have been tested repeatedly.
A total of 1,361,710 people in Iowa have been tested since the onset of the pandemic.
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