Saturday morning COVID counts, much like the counts from the other days this week.

Nearly 55-hundred new cases and 25 additional deaths added to the state’s website.

Story has 115 new cases, 61 in Marshall county. The total number of cases to date in the state nearing 179,000.

Among the 25 deaths that are rona related, there was one since yesterday reported in Jasper County and one in Grundy County.

Marshall County’s 14 day positivity testing rate back up a bit to 22 percent. The state’s 14 day average is 22.9 percent.