Zach Thompson, Iowa City Press-Citizen Published 10:25 a.m. CT Aug. 8, 2020 | Updated 1:40 p.m. CT Aug. 8, 2020

At 10 a.m. Saturday, Iowa was reporting an additional 383 cases of COVID-19 and 13 additional COVID-19-related deaths including three in Johnson County, the county's 11th in just over three weekssince the state's tally at 10 a.m. Friday, according to Coronavirus.Iowa.gov.

State officials report a total of 925 people with COVID-19 have died from the disease across the state, including 19 in Johnson County.BetweenJune and the first part of July, the county had gonemore than seven weeks without reporting a deathrelated to the disease. The county saw its first death,Regina High School P.E. teacher and football coach John DeMarco, on April 4.

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A total of 514,451 Iowans have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus, which causes the disease, including 24,941 in Johnson County. A total of 48,112 have tested positive in Iowa.

As of 10 a.m. Saturday, the state was reporting a total of 2,055 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Johnson County, an increase of 19from 10 a.m. Friday.

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Hospitalizations related to the virus in southeast Iowa returned to levels not seen since April 26on Wednesday. As of 10 a.m. Saturday, 56people were hospitalized with the virus in the state's fifth Regional Medical Coordination Center, which includes Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk, Lee, Muscatine, Scott, Van Buren, Wapello and Washington counties, down from 70 Wednesday. The region hit a peak of 88 hospitalized patients on April 22.

Twenty-four patients were still being cared for in the region's intensive care units Saturday morning,down from 32 Wednesday, which had been the most seen in the region since May 7 but still below the region's peak of 39 on April 22. According tothe state's coronavirus website, the region has 412general hospital beds and 90 ICU beds available for area coronavirus patients.

The state reported an outbreak at Solon's Nursing Care Center, where 36 cases had been confirmed, and just seven have recovered.

Numbers reported by the state for Johnson County and all of Iowa, respectively, as of 10 a.m. Saturday. Numbers in parentheses represent change over the previous 24 hours.

Total tested: 24,941 (+156); 514,451(+3,929)

Total confirmed: 2,055 (+19, or 12.18%); 48,112 (+383, or 9.75%)

Johnson County's 14-day average positivity rate: 8% (-)

Total recoveries: 1,511 (+31); 36,850 (+600)

Total deaths: 19 (+3); 925 (+13)

Hospitalized in RMCC Region 5: 56 (+2)

Receiving ICU care in RMCC Region 5: 24 (+1)

RMCC Region 5 includes Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk, Lee, Muscatine, Scott, Van Buren, Wapello and Washington counties.

Source: Iowa Department of Public Health

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