The Iowa Department of Public Health’s Coronavirus dashboard today (10-a.m., Monday, 4/12/21) showed there no additional COVID-19 related deaths reported since 10-a.m. Sunday, leaving the statewide pandemic death toll in Iowa at 5,857. Long-Term Care facility deaths account for 2,295 of the total number of deaths across the state.

There were 165 additional positive test results for COVID-19 returned from the labs, for a total of 385,904. There remain three Long-Term Care facility outbreaks, with 28 positive cases among residents and staff within those facilities.

Health officials say COVID-related hospitalizations are 220 (compared to 212 previously), and there are 55 COVID patients in an ICU. The IDPH says 30 people were admitted to a hospital across the state, compared to 39 the day before, and 21 patients remain on a ventilator.

RMCC Region 4 hospitals (those in western/southwest Iowa) show: There are 30 hospitalized with COVID; 13 COVID patients are in an ICU; two people were admitted with symptoms of COVID (6 less than previously reported), and there remain two COVID patients on a ventilator.

The 14-day and seven-day positivity rates were each 4.9%, a slight uptick from Sunday’s rate.

In the KJAN listening area, here are the current number positive cases by County; The # of new cases since yesterday {+} – if any; and the total number of deaths in each county to date:

• Cass, 1,416 cases; {+0}; 54 deaths
• Adair, 960; {+1}; 32
• Adams, 337 {+1}; 4
• Audubon, 511 {+0}; 9
• Guthrie, 1,246 {+0}; 28
• Harrison County, 1,878; {+3}; 73
• Madison County, 1,655; {+0; 19
• Mills County, 1,738; {+2}; 20
• Montgomery, 1,076 {+2}; 37
• Pottawattamie County, 11,674; {+10}; 160
• Shelby County, 1,321 {+0}; 37
• Union County,  1,320; {+0}; 32