The number of new cases of the COVID-19 virus in Wisconsin remains low, but not as low as yesterday.
The seven-day average went up slightly, from 341 to 353 cases per day, after 450 new cases were confirmed in the latest tests. Data from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services show new cases in Brown, Outagamie and Winnebago counties were in double digits but just barely. The positivity rate continued to decline, down another tenth of a percentage point.
The death rate is steady at 0.89 percent of all cases proving fatal since the pandemic reached Wisconsin. Currently the state is averaging 10 COVID-19 deaths per day, unchanged since Friday. Forty-five death reports were submitted to the state in the past day. DHS says 12 of these were in the past month. Brown County reported three deaths, Calumet, Oconto, Outagamie, Waushara and Winnebago counties each reported two deaths; and Fond du Lac county reported one. The death toll is 12,387.
