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Three additional deaths due to COVID-19 were reported to the State of Iowa Coronavirus Database over the weekend. There are a total of 2,170 positive tests, and Marion County Public Health considered 1,938 to be recovered in their most recent weekly report. There were 127 new cases over the past week, and there are eight residents hospitalized with COVID-19.

As of Friday, 1.8% of students were absent in the Pella Community School District for any reason. Of those, 17 were positive with COVID-19, and 26 were out for another reason — and while the number of positive cases is the highest to date for the district, the overall trend for absences remained largely steady over the previous week. Quarantine numbers remained on average nearly the same in Pella as well, with 4.3% of students in quarantine but participating in off-site learning. Those numbers are a trend down from a district-high mark of 7% reported on November 20th. Staff absences were at 1.9% district-wide as well.

The latest COVID-19 data from the Pella School District can be found here.

At the end of this past week, there were 34 staff and students absent from the PCM school district for a COVID-19 related reason, or 2.7% of the district’s population.