Wisconsin DHS: COVID-19 cases up 1,092; deaths up 5
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Wisconsin new COVID-19 cases below 1,000 as 4 more deaths are reported WBAY news staff © Provided by Green Bay-Appleton WBAY-TV WBAY
MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) – State health officials reported 804 new COVID-19 cases Saturday, breaking the prior two-day streak of more than 1,000 new cases.
The 7-day average is 778 new cases per day.
The state received 4,414 results for people being tested for the first time or testing positive, and 18% (18.2%) were positive. The remaining 3,610 tests were negative. The positivity rate’s 7-day average for all testing plateaued at 3.8% of all tests after days of rising.
It’s in part due to vaccinations that the death rate is holding steady at 1.1% even as the number of new cases and hospitalizations recently have recently risen, health officials say. The DHS reports 4 more deaths, and COVID-19′s death toll has reached 6,676 people. The four counties reporting new deaths were Brown, Milwaukee, Rock and Waukesha.