Nearly 22 hundred new cases of the rona compared to midday yesterday reported on the state’s website this morning.

93 new ones in story County, 50 in Marshall County, 38 in Jasper County. Marshall county’s positivity test rate average over the past 14 days is 21.6 percent, Grundy County is back up to 29 percent.

20 deaths reported since midday yesterday, one each in Jasper and Hardin counties.

Hospitalized Iowans last night totaled 1,227.