Coronavirus update 4-23-2020
Apr 23, 2020
Six additional Iowans have died from coronavirus, bringing the state’s total for the pandemic to 96. There have also been another 176 positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 3924. Six new cases…
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