Another death, 21 more COVID-19 cases confirmed in Johnson County; 10 new deaths reported statewide

At 10 a.m. Friday, Iowa was reporting an additional 678 cases of COVID-19 and 10 additional COVID-19-related deaths — including one in Johnson County — since the state's tally at 10 a.m. Thursday, according to Coronavirus.Iowa.gov.

State officials report a total of 964 people with COVID-19 have died from the disease across the state, including 21 in Johnson County. Of the 21, Friday's was the 13th reported in the last month. Between June and the first part of July, the county had gone more than seven weeks without reporting a death related to the disease. Officials here reported the first death related to the disease on April 4.

A total of 542,871 Iowans have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus, which causes the disease, including 26,131 in Johnson County. A total of 50,813 have tested positive in Iowa.

As of 10 a.m. Friday day, the state was reporting a total of 2,152 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Johnson County, an increase of 21 from 10 a.m.Thursday.

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As of 10 a.m. Friday, 61 people were hospitalized with the virus in the state's fifth Regional Medical Coordination Center, which includes Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk, Lee, Muscatine, Scott, Van Buren, Wapello and Washington counties, down one from Thursday morning. The region hit a peak of 88 hospitalized patients on April 22.

Twenty-seven patients were being cared for in the region's intensive care units Friday morning. The region hit a peak of 39 ICU patients on April 22. According to the state website, the region has 405 general hospital beds and 79 ICU beds available for area coronavirus patients.

The state continued to report an outbreak at Solon's Nursing Care Center, where 36 cases have been confirmed; 17 have recovered.

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Coronavirus in Iowa, by the numbers

Numbers reported by the state for Johnson County and all of Iowa, respectively, as of 10 a.m. Friday. Numbers in parentheses represent change over the previous 24 hours.

Total tested: 26,131 (+230); 542,871 (+5,532)

Total confirmed: 2,152 (+21, or 9.13%); 50,813 (+678, or 12.26%)

Johnson County's 14-day average positivity rate: 7% (-)

Total recoveries: 1,641 (+24); 39,788 (+574)

Total deaths: 21 (+1); 964 (+10)

Hospitalized in RMCC Region 5: 61 (-1)

Receiving ICU care in RMCC Region 5: 27 (+1)

RMCC Region 5 includes Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk, Lee, Muscatine, Scott, Van Buren, Wapello and Washington counties.

Source: Iowa Department of Public Health

Zach Thompson is the editor of the Press-Citizen and can be reached at zthompson@press-citizen.com. Follow him on Twitter at @zthomp.

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