(Radio Iowa) – The state now reports COVID-19 outbreaks in 143 long-term care facilities statewide. Governor Kim Reynolds acknowledges that’s up more than 50 nursing homes from a week ago, with more than 45-hundred residents testing positive — and more than a thousand have died.

The governor says the state’s overall positivity rate is falling, as are the number of hospitalizations due to COVID. At the moment, she says the 18-to-29 year old age group is seeing the most new cases.