Iowa Surpasses 23,000 COVID-19 Cases, 3 Additional Death

DES MOINES, Iowa - The state is reporting 380 new cases of COVID-19, along with three additional deaths as of 10 a.m. Friday.

A total of 641 people in Iowa have died from the virus and 23,165 have tested positive out of 212,824 tests overall.

The state reports 5,482 people were tested Thursday . A high mark of nearly 7,000 people were tested a week age. Governor Kim Reynolds has set a goal of 5,000 tests per day between the TestIowa program and the state hygienic lab. One in 16 Iowans have been tested for the virus.

Buena Vista County continues to show the biggest concentration of COVID-19 cases based on population, and that number continues to rapidly grow.

Buena Vista County now has 7,215 cases per 100,000 residents. By comparison, Crawford County has the second highest concentration per 100,000 - 3,468. Polk, the largest population county in the state, has 1,027 cases per 100,000. Overall cases have been on the rise in Polk County, and have surpassed 5,000, with a total of 5,002 as of Friday.

The state has conducted 25,314 Serology tests to find anti-bodies in people who have contracted and recovered for COVID-19. There have been 2,087 positive Serology tests, accounting for 8 percent of those tests.

There have been 14,054 recoveries from the virus for a recovery rate of 60 percent.

The state is reporting COVID-19 outbreaks at 35 long term care centers, a drop from 36 Thursday.

Overall, COVID-19 case counts have flattened since early May, and are slowly tapering off for the past month.

The numbers for the state only represent COVID-19 figures compiled by the Iowa Department of Public Health. Unreported cases and deaths could make the actual figures different.


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