The Iowa Department of Public Health’s (IDPH) COVID-19 dashboard, Sunday (today), shows the number of death from the virus in Iowa, has surpassed 600. The latest figure shows 602 people have died from COVID-19, five more than what was reported on Saturday. There were also 89 new, positive cases of COVID-19, for a total of 21,527. Nearly half of Iowa’s coronavirus cases are located in four counties: Polk, Woodbury, Black Hawk and Buena Vista.

The total number of test administered to date, is 186, 586. Of those, 164,665 came back negative for COVID-19. The number of Iowans who have recovered from the virus is 12,762.

IDPH data show 269 Iowans are hospitalized with COVID-19, down 19 from Saturday. ICU patients number 86. Iowans admitted to the hospital Saturday numbered 22, which is three less than yesterday. 54 patients were on a ventilator, which is a decrease of eight people. In RMCC Region 4 (southwest /western Iowa), six patients were in a hospital, 3 were in an ICU, none were admitted over the past 24-hours, and one person was on a ventilator.

Here are the current number of COVID-19 positive cases and the number of those who have recovered (in parenthesis):

• Cass County: 13 positive cases [1 more than Friday, as reported on Saturday] (11 have recovered)
• Adair County: 9 (6)
• Adams County: 7 (4)
• Audubon County: 13 (9)
• Guthrie County: 55 (34)
• Montgomery County: 9 (6)
• Pottawattamie County: 339 (202)
• Shelby County: 38 (34).

A traffic stop in Adams County on a vehicle with no license plates, resulted in the arrest, Saturday evening, of a man from Adair County. 41-year old Christopher Lee Breece, of Bridgewater, was taken into custody at around 6:55-p.m. for Driving While Barred. His bond was set at $2,000.

A Red Oak man arrested this past week for Criminal Mischief in the 5th Degree, was arrested again yesterday (Saturday), for Domestic Assault. 46-year old James Reed Mitroff II, was taken into custody at around 6:30-p.m. Saturday. While at the Montgomery County Jail, Mitroff II allegedly became combative, and was subsequently charged with Assault on a Peace officer (without injury). His bond was set at $1,000.

A man from Oelwein died during a head-on crash Saturday evening in northeast Iowa’s Clayton County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2003 Harley Davidson motorcycle operated by 50-year old David Bushaw, of Oelwein, was westbound on Clayton Road at around 6:20-p.m., as a 1998 Massey Ferguson Farm Tractor driven by 18-year old Joshua Herzog, of Garnavillo, was traveling eastbound.

As the cycle was negotiating a curve in the road, for reasons unknown it crossed the center line and struck the tractor head-on. Bushaw died at the scene. The accident remains under investigation.

A man from Wayne County was injured Thursday in southern Iowa, when his motorcycle ran into the rear of a vehicle driven by a man from Audubon County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 33-year old Ian Harper, of Allerton, was operating a 2012 Harley Davidson XL-1200 Forty Eight motorcycle westbound on Highway 2 at around 2:15-p.m., Thursday, when he entered a construction zone and collided with the rear of a 2017 Mazda CX-5, that was stopped in traffic waiting for a pilot car.

The Patrol says Harper didn’t apply the brakes for some reason, prior to impacting the car, driven by 82-year old Klaus Kollatschny, of Kimballton. Harper was flown from the scene by air ambulance to a hospital in Des Moines.