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Pott. County reports four new COVID-19 cases, Sunday

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April 26th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

Pottawattamie County Public Health, Sunday (today) reported four new COVID-19 cases. The total of COVID-19 cases in Pottawattamie County is now twenty-nine. Seventeen individuals have recovered, eleven are self-isolating at home, zero are hospitalized, and there has been one death.

The four new cases all reside in Council Bluffs and include two males and two females ranging in age from 18 to 80 years old. Two of them have pre-existing conditions. One of the individuals had contact with an existing COVID-19 case, and three were the result of community spread. These individuals were tested between April 23 and April 24. All four of them are self-isolating at home.

Pottawattamie County Public Health is conducting the contact tracing investigations and is in communication with the Iowa Department of Public Health. As testing capacity increases, the number of positives reported will also increase. The total number of Iowans tested for COVID-19, along with positive and negative results, can be found at www.coronavirus.iowa.gov.