Iowa Reports 66 New Coronavirus Cases; Two More Deaths
Public health officials are reporting another 66 positive cases of the coronavirus in Iowa, raising the statewide number of 614.
Iowa Department of Public officials also confirmed two more deaths in the state, both were adults from Linn County who were between the ages of 61 and 80.
The latest figures, released Thursday around noon, include 17 cases involving area counties.
The highest jump was in Allamakee, where eight cases have been reported in the past 24 hours. The victims include four adults between the ages of 41 and 60, two adults between the ages of 18 and 40, one adult between the ages of 61 and 80, and one child between the ages of 0 and 17.
Tama County has three new cases. They involve two adults between the ages of 18 and 40 and one adults between the ages of 41 and 60.
Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Delaware, Marshall and Winneshiek counties each reported one case. The cases in Black Hawk, Bremer and Marshall counties involve adults between the ages of 41 and 60. The cases in Delaware and Winneshiek counties involve adults between the ages of 61 and 80, and the Buchanan County case is adult between the ages of 18-40.
The virus is now present in 63 of Iowa's 99 counties. According to health officials, the 614 confirmed cases include 326 females and 288 males.
The death toll from the pandemic in Iowa now stands at 11. There are currently 74 people hospitalized with symptoms of COVID-19, state health officials said. The numbers also show that 347 Iowans who tested positive for the coronavirus were never hospitalized.
To date, 8,054 people have tested negative for the virus in Iowa.
Here's information on the state's 66 additional cases:
- Allamakee County: 1 child (0-17 years), 2 adults (18-40 years), 4 middle-age adults (41-60 years), 1 older adult (61-80) years
- Black Hawk County: 1 middle-age adult (41-60 years)
- Boone County: 1 middle-age adult (41-60 years)
- Bremer County: 1 middle-age adult (41-60 years)
- Buchanan County: 1 adult (18-40 years)
- Cedar County: 1 adult (18-40 years), 1 middle-age adult (41-60 years)
- Cerro Gordo County: 2 middle-age adults (41-60 years)
- Clay County: 1 middle-age adult (41-60 years)
- Clinton County: 2 adults (18-40 years), 1 older adult (61-80 years)
- Dallas County: 1 adult (18-40 years), 3 middle-age adults (41-60 years)
- Delaware County: 1 older adult (61-80 years)
- Jefferson County: 1 adult (18-40 years)
- Johnson County: 1 adult (18-40 years), 3 middle-age adults (41-60 years)
- Jones County: 1 middle-age adult (41-60 years)
- Linn County: 3 adults (18-40 years), 4 middle-age adults (41-60 years), 1 older adult (61-80 years), 1 elderly adult (81+)
- Mahaska County: 1 middle-age adult (41-60 years)
- Marshall County: 1 middle-age adult (41-60 years)
- Muscatine County: 1 adult (18-40 years)
- Polk County: 2 adults (18-40 years), 1 middle-age adult (41-60 years), 3 older adults (61-80 years)
- Poweshiek County: 1 middle-age adult (41-60 years)
- Scott County: 3 middle-age adults (41-60 years), 1 older adult (61-80 years)
- Tama County: 2 adults (18-40 years), 1 middle-age adult (41-60 years)
- Van Buren County: 1 older adult (61-80 years)
- Warren County: 1 adult (18-40 years), 1 middle-age adult (41-60 years)
- Washington County: 1 adult (18-40 years), 1 older adult (61-80 years)
- Winneshiek County: 1 older adult (61-80 years)
- Woodbury County: 2 adults (18-40 years), 1 middle-age adult (41-60 years)
CLICK HERE to view a status report of monitoring and testing of COVID-19 in Iowa, provided by the Iowa Department of Public Health.
In addition, a public hotline has been established for Iowans with questions about COVID-19. The line is available 24-7 by calling 2-1-1 or 1-800-244-7431.
Iowans who have traveled recently for business or spring break vacations, whether internationally or domestically outside of Iowa, should strongly consider self-isolating for 14 days. This will support the state's ongoing efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, and limit the introduction of the virus from other points of travel, IDPH officials said.
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