Wisconsin health officials on Saturday reported more than 500 new cases of the coronavirus as communities and counties continued to debate their plans after the state Supreme Court rescinded a statewide stay-at-home order.
Some local health officials in Wisconsin rescinded their stay-at-home orders Friday after attorneys warned they could be vulnerable to legal challenges.
Wisconsin’s largest counties, Milwaukee and Dane, home to about 1.5 million of the state’s 6 million residents, left their orders in place.
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Meanwhile, the Department of Health Services update shows that the number of COVID19 cases across the state has gone over 12,100.
The total number of hospitalizations has topped 2,000.
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