Milwaukee COVID cases, positivity rates improve: officials
By FOX6 News Digital Team
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MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee Health Department (MHD) released on Friday, April 30 an update on the public health and safety order Moving Milwaukee Forward related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The order, in Phase 6, features three COVID-19 gating criteria on a color-coded scale: rate of cases per 100,000 over seven days; percentage test positivity over seven days; city adult vaccination rate.
Over the past week, the Milwaukee Health Department reported improving trends in both the seven-day rate and the percentage of positive tests.
The health department reported a high transmission rate of cases per 100,000 now 111.3 down from 127.1 the criterion remained in the RED designation.
Arbor Day volunteers plant trees, 300 in Waukesha County Parks
Waukesha volunteers plant trees on Arbor Day
Arbor Day is celebrated on the last Friday of April every year highlighting the importance of trees in our environment. And Waukesha County Parks is making it easy to celebrate.
WAUKESHA COUNTY, Wis. - Arbor Day is celebrated on the last Friday of April every year highlighting the importance of trees in our environment. And Waukesha County Parks is making it easy to celebrate. The idea here is to not only plant trees to improve our own quality of life through clean air and cleaning the water, but also to provide habitat for the wildlife that resides here, said Julia Robson, a conservation biologist with Waukesha County Parks.
The Wisconsin state Capitol, closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic, will reopen on Monday, May 3, Gov. Tony Evers' administration announced Friday.