769 more COVID-19 cases reported across Wisconsin
Wisconsin health officials reported 769 new positive cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, 10.1% of the 7,617 tests processed since Saturday.
Sunday’s total is the third highest number of new COVID-19 cases reported in a single day. On Saturday, the state health department reported 926 new cases; on Friday, there were 845.
As of Sunday, 36,448 Wisconsinites have tested positive for COVID-19 since March.
Health officials reported 820 total deaths on Sunday — one fewer than Saturday’s total of 821. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services website notes that data is subject to change and “as individual cases are investigated by public health, there may be corrections to the status and details of cases that result in changes to this information.”
As of Sunday, around 78% of all people diagnosed with COVID-19 in Wisconsin had recovered. There are 7,305 active cases, or 20%. The remaining 2% of people have died, according to the state health department.
Statewide, 264 people with COVID-19 were hospitalized as of Sunday morning, which is 20 more people than last Sunday, according to the Wisconsin Hospital Association. Of those patients, 74 are in the intensive care unit. Another
148 hospitalized patients are waiting for the results of a COVID-19 test.
Globally, more than 12.7 million people have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Sunday, according to Johns Hopkins University. Around a quarter of all positive cases are in the United States, where more than 3.2 million have tested positive and 135,000 people have died.