Northwest Iowa — Positive COVID-19 test results were down in three of the counties in our four-county area for the past seven days, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health.
There were eighteen new positive COVID test results in the four-county area of O’Brien, Osceola, Sioux and Lyon Counties in the past week, compared to thirty the week before. The only county to report an increase in the number of positives over last week was Lyon County. They report six new positive tests, with a 6% positivity rate. That’s up from no new positives last week.
Sioux County reports the highest number of positive tests in the past week with nine, which is down eleven from the previous week’s total of twenty. Sioux County’s positivity rate was 5%.
Osceola County reports two positive tests in the past week, down from six the week before. Their positivity rate was 4%.
O’Brien County had the fewest positive tests of any county in the four-county area, reporting just one positive test last week, down from four a week ago. O’Brien County reports a 1% positive rate last week.
No additional COVID-related deaths were reported in our four-county area in the past seven days, leaving the total at 187. 74 of those deaths were Sioux County residents, 56 were O’Brien County residents, 41 were from Lyon County and 16 from Osceola County.
As of late morning Monday there was just one long-term care center in Iowa experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak. That single facility is Risen Son Christian Village in Pottawattamie County, where ten residents and staff have COVID, according to the IDPH.
