SHEBOYGAN, WI (WHBL) – Sheboygan County logged its eleventh death due to COVID-19 according to the final daily report for this week from the County Division of Public Health. The latest casualty is among fifty-one who were 80 or older when they succumbed to COVID-19. Twenty-five of the county’s 107 deaths were in their 70s, nineteen were in their 60s, five were in their 50s, four were in their 40s, two were in their 30s and one was between 10 and 19 years old.
162 test returns were reported on Friday, with 58 of them – or 35.8% – positive for COVID-19, raising the running total to 12,077. 54 more persons recovered, and the active case number was reduced by 8 to 757. 8 persons, one less than on Thursday, is hospitalized.
Sheboygan County’s two-week rates and trajectories indicate a “Very High” activity level, with 610.4 cases per 100,000 population and no significant change in the trajectory.
Wisconsin recorded 2,269 more cases of the coronavirus…28.2% of all tests returned, and 518,251 persons in the state have now contracted COVID-19. 5,322 of those have not survived, 32 more than on Thursday. 119 persons needed to be hospitalized for treatment of their symptoms, and after deaths and discharges, the COVID patient population fell 45 to 953. 227 of those are in ICU beds, and 449 persons are on ventilators. Those ventilated may include some of the 53 patients hospitalized and still awaiting their test results.
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