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The Iowa Department of Public Health shows no new deaths due to complications of COVID-19. There were 146 new cases including four new cases in Woodbury County in a 24-hour period. The 14-day test positivity rate locally is 6.2%. That is down almost one percent in one week.
Credit Siouxland District Health
A person “associated with” the Iowa Senate has tested positive for the coronavirus.
According to an email from the secretary of the senate, that person was last in the Iowa Capitol on Wednesday and tested positive Saturday.
This is the ninth positive test publicly reported since the legislative session started in January, and the second associated with the Iowa Senate. The other seven were linked to the House.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) A federal judge on Monday granted a Nebraska prisoner's request for an abortion and ordered state officials to transport her to a clinic so she can get the procedure as.
Nebraska prison inmate sues for right to get abortion
By GRANT SCHULTEApril 9, 2021 GMT
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) A Nebraska prison inmate sued the state corrections department Friday, saying she was denied her constitutional right to get an abortion.
The woman, identified as Jane Roe, asked a federal judge for an emergency order so she can get state-mandated counseling and an abortion at a Planned Parenthood in Lincoln by her scheduled appointment on Tuesday. She’s a little more than 15 weeks pregnant and has been in prison since Feb. 18, serving a 26-month sentence at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women in York, according to the lawsuit.