COVID-19 community levels retreat across Wisconsin counties

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – The gradual decline in new confirmed COVID-19 instances throughout Wisconsin was mirrored to a larger diploma within the newest COVID-19 Group Ranges map, launched Thursday.

After a two-week improve that resulted in 18 counties reporting transmission ranges the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention would take into account excessive, that quantity was lower in half on the newest map posted by the state’s Division of Well being Companies. The variety of counties within the medium class dropped sharply as properly, falling from 35 to 24 counties.

These declines resulted in additional than half the states on the CDC’s map being coloured inexperienced, indicated low group ranges. Thirty-eight counties at the moment are listed as low, twice as many as final week.

No counties in south-central or southwest Wisconsin hit excessive ranges, the map confirmed, whereas the westernmost have been all shaded inexperienced. Columbia, Dane, Iowa, Juneau, Marquette, Rock, and Sauk counties all remained within the medium column.

Public Well being Madison and Dane Co. shared the statistics the CDC makes use of to find out group ranges on Friday. Whereas they present the county stays far above the case rely the place a county might be thought of excessive, the opposite components, involving hospitalizations, retreated.

On Friday, the newest every day replace on case rely continued its practically two-week lengthy slide from current highs. With slightly below 2,000 instances reported to finish the week, the seven-day rolling common fell to 1,838 instances per day over the earlier week. As just lately as Could 15, the typical stood at 2,200 instances per day.

Deaths linked to COVID-19 are set to cross one other milestone over the weekend, with the variety of folks confirmed to have died from COVID-19 or problems from the virus at the moment sits at 12,997, the report discovered.

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