Northwest Iowa — We’ve heard that the recently low number of new COVID positives around the country have been spiking in recent days and that trend has now reached the four-county area of O’Brien, Osceola, Sioux and Lyon Counties.
According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, the four-county area saw an increase in positive COVID cases of nearly 700% in the past seven days, reporting 27 new cases this week, compared to just 4 last week.
Sioux County reported 12 new cases in the past seven days, compared to just 2 last week. O’Brien County reports 9 new positives in the past seven days, compared to last week’s report of just 1. In Osceola County they saw 4 new positives in this week’s report, compared to zero last week. And Lyon County reports 2 new positives, up from 1 last week.
The only good news coming out of this week’s report is that there were no additional COVID-related deaths reported in the area in the past seven days. So the totals remain at 74 in Sioux County, 57 in O’Brien County, 41 in Lyon County and 17 in Osceola County, for a four-county total of 189 of our friends and neighbors claimed by COVID-related illness since the pandemic began.
