There have been 27,743 positive cases of COVID-19 in Wisconsin as of Sunday, according to the state Department of Health Services. That’s an increase of 457 cases from the day before.
Health officials reported no additional coronavirus deaths Sunday. In total, 777 people in the state have died from COVID-19.
DHS reported 521,747 total negative tests for the coronavirus, an increase of 6,024 from Saturday to Sunday.
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Seventy-nine percent of people who have tested positive for the virus in Wisconsin have recovered as of Sunday, according to DHS. Three percent have died.
Wisconsin’s daily testing capacity — based on the availability of test supplies and adequate staffing — has grown from 120 available lab tests in early March to 18,425 as of Sunday. The number of actual tests reported on Sunday was 6,481.
The percentage of positive tests has been steadily increasing in recent days. On Sunday it rose to 7.1 percent, up from 5.9 percent the day before. Sunday’s percentage of positive tests was the highest officials have reported since May 20.
Based on the state’s gating criteria, Wisconsin is no longer seeing a 14-day downward trajectory in reports of COVID-like cases, and DHS is no longer reporting a downward trajectory of positive tests as a percent of total tests within a 14-day period.
According to DHS, 3,393 people have been hospitalized because of the virus as of Sunday. That means at least 12 percent of people who have tested positive for the coronavirus in the state have been hospitalized. DHS officials said they don’t know the hospitalization history of 8,162 people, or 29 percent.
On June 24, DHS launched a new data dashboard that looks at COVID-19 activity on a county and regional level. That dashboard shows that 22 counties in the state have a “high” COVID-19 activity level — a designation based on a county’s number of cases per 100,000 residents over the past 14 days, and the extent to which that case rate is increasing.
The dashboard also listed the overall state’s COVID-19 activity level as “high.”
La Crosse, Trempealeau, Milwaukee and Lafayette counties have the highest case rates in the state, all with over 100 cases per 100,000 residents reported over the past two weeks.
There have been confirmed cases in all 72 of Wisconsin’s counties.
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