Covid-19
High rate of new cases detected as vaccination rate also growing
DES MOINES, Iowa – The Iowa Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 data shows an increase of 533 confirmed cases of the virus from 10:00 a.m. on February 6 to 10:00 a.m. on February 7. Those new cases come from 2,181 new tests. The positivity rate of those latest tests is 24.5%.
87,345 people in Iowa are now been completely vaccinated against COVID-19 – 6,744 more than Saturday morning. Vaccination numbers appear to be updating daily during the 12:00 p.m. hour.
No new deaths were reported over the last 24-hour stretch – with 5,108 Iowans now dead from COVID-19 during the pandemic.
There are now 324,405 total cases confirmed in Iowa from 1,493,901 people tested for COVID-19.
293,598 Iowans are now classified as recovering from the virus – with 497 recoveries added in the last 24 hours.
316 people are now hospitalized in Iowa because of COVID-19. 68 of those patients are in the ICU. 30 of the patients are on ventilators. 69 new patients were admitted to Iowa hospitals over the last 24-hour period measured by IDPH.
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