Since our Saturday morning updates, over 42-hundred cases of COVID have been added to the state’s website. 71 in Story County, 65 in Jasper County and 62 in Marshall County. The total this morning to date 131,098. The positivity testing rate is 13.3 percent.

There have been 19 additional deaths reported since Saturday morning, none in our immediate area, for a total of 1,733.

718 Iowans were in the hospital last night for treatment of the rona, up 42 from yesterday.