WISCONSIN (NBC 26) — Wisconsin health officials reported 84 deaths related to COVID-19, bringing the state total to almost 4,400 people to have died from the disease.
The additional deaths confirmed Saturday mark more than 350 deaths in the past week.
Wisconsin’s death count is the 23rd highest in the country overall and the 32nd highest per capita at 79 deaths per 100,000 people, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers. One in every 233 people in Wisconsin tested positive in the past week, according to The COVID Tracking Project.
Health officials said 3,675 out of 10,876 COVID-19 tests returned positive Saturday afternoon.
There were 931 new cases per 100,000 people in Wisconsin over the past two weeks, which ranks 28th in the country for new cases per capita, according to The COVID Tracking Project.
According to the state Department of Health Services (DHS), the seven-day average for positive cases by person is 26.9% as of Friday's numbers. This percentage only includes each person once across the duration of the pandemic, no matter how many times an individual gets tested.
The DHS said approximately 90.6% of people who had tested positive for the virus have since recovered. An estimated 38,351 cases remain active, which is 541 less cases than the day prior.
Hospitalizations increased by 122, bringing the state total to 20,052 people to ever be hospitalized with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.