Region 6 

As of 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday night, in all of Region 6 which Benton County falls into, there are a total of 40 hospitalized with COVID-19 and 15 of those are in the ICU. There are just over 1,000 beds available and 84.24% of ventilators available, or 155. Right now there are 5 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.

Benton County

As for Benton County, since the beginning of counting the cases, Benton County has had 99 and of those, 79 have recovered. There has been one death back in April. We currently have 19 active cases in the county. 


-As of 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, Benton County has 102 cases