1,493 new COVID-19 cases reported
Almost 100,000 Wisconsinites have received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Friday, according to data from the state Department of Health Services.
That means almost 100,000 people in Wisconsin are protected from severe illness caused by the virus.
On Friday, more than 32,200 shots were given to people throughout the state. According to the state health department, 521,762 doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in total.
Almost 156,000 people over the age of 65 have received at least one dose of the vaccine as of Saturday, according to the state health department. People in that age group became eligible to begin getting vaccinated on Monday.
New cases reported: 1,493
New deaths reported: 33
Number hospitalized (as of Friday): 678 (intensive care: 185); down 404 patients from one month ago
Seven-day average of daily cases: 1,365 (down
591 cases from one month ago)
Seven-day average of daily deaths: 30 (up 1 from one month ago)
The average positivity rate — first-time positive tests over the last seven days — was 19.5% Saturday. Total cases since the start of pandemic: 541,408 Total deaths: 5,893
Key takeaways
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin continues to decline from the state’s peak in the fall.
At the peak of the state’s coronavirus outbreak in mid-November, about 6,500 new infections were reported daily. After that, the number of new cases began falling, until a few days after Christmas. On Jan. 9, the state’s seven-day average of new cases rose to almost 3,000.
Since then, confirmed cases have been declining and the seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases reported Saturday by the state health department is at its lowest since September.
Since the beginning of the pandemic last year, more than 438,000 people in the U.S. have died and 26 million infections have been reported. Globally, more than 2.2 million have died and countries have reported more than 102 million cases of COVID-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.