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Woodbury County on Sunday sees lowest one-day infections tally since early October
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No 1 story of 2020: COVID-19 infects thousands, claims hundreds of lives in Siouxland
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SIOUX CITY Woodbury County s cumulative tally of COVID-19 infections this week hit the 12,000 mark, but current indicators show the outbreak is losing steam.Â
In its weekly COVID-19 status update, the Siouxland District Health Department this week wrote that the percentage of coronavirus tests coming back positive and the number of new infections has been on the decline in Woodbury County for two consecutive weeks.Â
For the week ended Dec. 20, the county s positivity rate was 9.4 percent, the first time since August that the positive percentage was below 10 percent. The positivity rate was around 10.6 percent the week ended Dec. 13, with both figures well below the mid-November peak of around 18.4 percent.Â
(KTIV) - State health officials reported 620 new positive cases in Iowa between 10 a.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday, this according to the COVID-19 dashboard.
At 10 a.m. Saturday, the Iowa Department of Public Health reported 274,313 total positive cases since the pandemic began. That number rose to 274,933 by 10 a.m. Sunday.
The state s website says out of those who have tested positive, 228,763 have recovered, an increase of 1,093 since yesterday.
The state has reported one additional death connected to COVID-19, bringing the state s death toll to 3,745.
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Subtracting the number of recoveries (228,763) and the number of deaths (3,745) from the total number of cases (274,933) shows there are currently 42,425 active positive cases in the state.
A dozen more COVID-19 deaths reported in 7 Siouxland counties
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