DES MOINES, Iowa - The state is reporting 355 new cases of COVID-19, along with seven additional death as of 10 a.m. Thursday. Both categories have been trending downward over the past several days, an encouraging sign for the state. But the current report of new cases is at least a one day spike the 120 reported Wednesday.
Iowa's cumulative totals include 24,735 who have tested positive out of 239,596 tests overall with a positive rate of 10.3 percent. There have been 15,417 recoveries with a recovery rate is 62 percent. There are a total of 677 deaths from COVID-19 in Iowa.
The state reports 5,591 people were tested Wednesday. Governor Kim Reynolds has set a goal of 5,000 tests per day between the TestIowa program and the state hygienic lab. One in 13 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 8,161 cases per 100,000 residents. By comparison, Crawford County has the second highest concentration per 100,000 - 3,660. Polk, the largest population county in the state, has 1,087 cases per 100,000. Overall cases have been on the rise in Polk County, and surpassed 5,000 last week.
The state has conducted 27,575 Serology tests to find anti-bodies in people who have contracted and recovered for COVID-19. There have been 2,157 positive Serology tests, accounting for 8 percent of those tests.
The state is reporting COVID-19 outbreaks at 34 long term care centers, down one from Wednesday. There have been 351 long term care center deaths, accounting for 52 percent of the state's total.
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.