DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) – The Iowa Department of Public Health on Wednesday reported three more COVID-19 deaths and 631 more positive cases in Iowa.
At 10:30 a.m., the state reported that a total of 337,594 people had tested positive for COVID-19 and a total of 5,501 people had died with the virus since the pandemic began.
The state’s data contains COVID-19 as the underlying cause of 4,933 of the reported deaths, while the virus was a contributing factor in 568 of the reported deaths.
The state also reported that a total of 191 people in Iowa have been hospitalized with the virus, while 28 have been hospitalized in the past 24 hours. There are currently 40 COVID-19 patients in the ICU and 11 on ventilators.
Over the past 24 hours, the state reported that 3,560 individuals had been tested for COVID-19. A total of 1,565,415 individuals have been tested since the start of the pandemic. According to this data, the positivity rate during the past 24 hours was 17.7 percent.
From 10:30 a.m. The vaccine administration dashboard shows a total of 723,262 COVID-19 vaccines in Iowa, and 186,759 people in Iowa received both doses of COVID-19.
See the latest information on COVID-19 vaccination in Iowa here.
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