News : COVID-19 update 7/30/20

Benton County

As of 1:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 30, Benton County cases of COVID have reached 120 total cases since March.

Of the 120, 84 have recovered, leaving 35 active cases in the county (there has been one death early on of an 83 year old man from Blairstown in early April.)

Region 6

In all of Region 6 which Benton County falls into, there are a total of 52 hospitalized with COVID-19.

14 of those are in the ICU, and 149 ICU beds available.

There are just over 1,000 beds available and 159 ventilators available. Right now there are 2 from our Region on ventilators.

The counties included in these numbers include Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Clayton, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette, Grundy, Howard, Jones, Linn and Winneshiek.