Two additional Appleton residents have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the city's total number of confirmed cases to 14, according to an Appleton Health Department press release Thursday morning.
There are currently seven residents in isolation, six who had coronavirus who have been released from isolation and one who died from the virus.
Both residents live in the Outagamie County portion of the city and are in isolation. The cases were acquired through contact with a person confirmed to have coronavirus.
The city's health department is conducting contact investigations to identify and follow-up with any people who had close contact with the ill individuals. Close contacts will be educated about self-monitoring their health status by health department nurses. They will be required to do daily symptom and temperature checks; as well as quarantine themselves for 14 day as a precaution.
As the number of positive cases continue to rise, the health department assumes there are more cases in Appleton which have not been confirmed. The city asks everyone to continue to follow the Safer at Home emergency order and follow guidelines from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and CDC to help slow the spread of the virus.
