At 10 a.m. Wednesday, Iowa reported 896 more positive test results of COVID-19 and 27 additional COVID-19-related deaths since the state s tally at 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to Coronavirus.Iowa.gov.
Officials report a total of 5,601 people with COVID-19 have died from the disease across the state, including 76 in Johnson County. A death reported Tuesday was the 29th reported here this year. The county s first death due to the disease was reported April 4, 2020.
Deaths reported are not deaths that have occurred within the past 24 hours, but only represent deaths that were added to the Iowa Department of Public Health s public dashboard within the past 24 hours. It often takes more than a week or even two or three for a death to be added to the state s dashboard after a person has died.
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