The Iowa Department of Public Health has identified 68 COVID-19 deaths in the twenty-four period that ended at 10:00 on Sunday morning. That brings our state’s pandemic total to 5,822 coronavirus deaths, with 31 of those occurring in Boone County. Now 472 new cases of COVID-19 were also reported, which is actually a decrease of 77 from the number reported on Saturday. Iowa has had more than 381,000 coronavirus cases, 2,751 of those in Boone County. However, over 1.5 million Iowans have been vaccinated against COVID-19; 12,758 doses have been given in Boone County alone. Greater than 334,000 Iowans have recovered from coronavirus, including 2,422 in Boone County, but there is one other number of concern: Our county’s seven-day positivity rate has increased for the second week in a row, going up two full percentage points in the last seven days to 5%.
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