COVID-19 in Wisconsin: No new deaths, 420 new cases reported Sunday
This electron microscope image made available and color-enhanced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Md., shows Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, orange, isolated from a patient. University of Hong Kong scientists claim to have the first evidence of someone being reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19. They said Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 that genetic tests show a 33-year-old man returning to Hong Kong from a trip to Spain in mid-August had a different strain of the coronavirus than the one he’d previously been infected with in March.[NIAID/National Institutes of Health via AP]
Sunday, Wisconsin health officials reported no new deaths related to COVID-19, keeping the state’s total at 6,576 deaths since the pandemic began.
Additionally, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) reported 30 new hospitalizations, moving the total number of hospitalizations during the pandemic to 27,102.
A total of 572,432 positive cases of COVID-19 have now been confirmed in Wisconsin, with 420 new cases reported Sunday.
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As of Sunday, DHS reports that more than 3.25 million people have been tested in the state.
The state’s seven-day average positivity rate by test is at 2.3%.
DHS said the state has been allocated 2,406,245 vaccine doses so far. Of those, 2,333,528 had been administered as of Sunday, and 855,820 people had completed the two-shot vaccine series.
You can see the state’s complete COVID-19 report here.