Marshall County saw a nearly 50 percent increase of recoveries of COVID-19.

As of Thursday, 920 people have recovered in Marshall County and 16,990 have recovered throughout the state.

Iowa had a 41 percent increase in cases of people recovering from COVID-19 and a 49 percent increase of recoveries from COVID-19 in Marshall County.

There were 31 new cases of COVID-19 in Marshall County, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 website. This week’s totals bring the county to 1,025 cases since March.

This week there was an increase of 3.1 percent, since June 25 994 cases rose to 1,025 on Thursday.

According to the IDPH data, 64 percent of the reported cases of COVID-19 across the state have been from Caucasians; 6 percent, Asian; 9 percent, African American; 1 percent, Native American; 1 percent, native Hawaiian; and 24 percent, Latino.

Only slightly more men than women have been infected with 50 percent of the cases being male and 48 percent, female.

People between the ages of 18 and 47 made up the majority of confirmed cases with 32 percent; people between the ages of 41 and 60, 12 percent; people between the ages 61 and 80, 13 percent; people older than 81, 4 percent; and 5 percent have been younger than 18.

Last week ended with 27,096 confirmed cases and this week comes to a close with 29,965 cases. There were 2,869 new cases reported in Iowa.

Overall, Iowa’s cases have increased by 10.5 percent as the state has almost completely opened back up.

Marshall County has the eighth highest number of COVID-19 confirmed cases. In front are Polk with 6,216; Woodbury, 3,185; Black Hawk, 2,165; Buena Vista, 1,705; Linn, 1,227; Johnson, 1,219; and Dallas with 1,211.

At least 717 Iowans have died from COVID-19 and 18 of those deaths were residents of Marshall County.

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