177 Iowans have died with coronavirus over the past two weeks.  According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, the state’s death toll from the pandemic is 9262 as of Tuesday (3/8).  There were five deaths from COVID-19 in Wapello County over the past two weeks, with three in both Jasper and Marion Counties and one in Mahaska County.

There have also been another 11,920 positive tests for COVID-19 in Iowa, raising the pandemic total to 850,643.  Over the last two weeks, there have been 67 new positive tests for coronavirus in Jasper County, 45 in Marion County, 33 in both Poweshiek and Wapello Counties, 23 in Mahaska County, 15 new positive COVID-19 tests in Keokuk County and 11 in Monroe County.