COVID-19 positivity rates climbed in Clay County and decreased in O'Brien County during the past week.

Clay County's seven-day positivity rate climbed from 9 percent on March 16 to 12 percent on March 23. O'Brien County was down from 11 percent to 6 percent during that same time period. Statewide, the state's seven-day rate was up from 4.2 percent to 4.3 percent.

Coronavirus-related deaths were unchanged in O'Brien and Clay counties at 58 and 25, respectively. Those numbers have been the same for the past five weeks. Statewide, there have been 5,683 fatalities, up from 5,657 last week.

Confirmed infections since the pandemic began tallied 2,039 in O'Brien County, 2,055 in Clay County and 374,533 statewide. Recoveries in that same order were 1,726, 1,804 and 328,861.

As of Sunday, there were 185 coronavirus-related hospitalizations in Iowa, up from 161 the previous week. Two hospitalizations were reported in Clay County while O'Brien County had none.

Clay County has initiated 2,181 vaccine series and completed 3,766, while O'Brien County has initiated 1,594 series and completed 2,120. Statewide, there have been 324,624 vaccine series initiated and 504,898 completed, including administered doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. According to state's coronavirus data website, neither O'Brien County nor Clay County has administered the one-shot vaccine yet.