Officials with Pottawattamie County Public Health (PCPH), Monday (Today), reported Nine new COVID-19 positive cases among residents of Council Bluffs. One person is 18-to 40 years of age, two are 41-to 60, six are 61-to 80 years old. They were tested between May 7th and 15th. As of today (Monday), 2,060 Pott. County residents have been tested for the virus, with 171 having tested positive.

Two persons who tested positive are hospitalized, 92 or self-isolating, and 74 have fully recovered. As previously mentioned, the vast majority of COVID-19 positive cases in Pottawattamie County have not required hospitalization, and have been able to fully recover at home. On May 18th, two additional cases were tracked via PCPH contact tracing investigations, bringing the current number of community spread cases down from 55 to 53.

For additional COVID-19 information, including case demographics filtered by county, go to https://coronavirus.iowa.gov/.