One more Sheboygan County resident, one at least 80 years old, has succumbed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and became the 132nd local victim of the pandemic that arrived in the county one year ago this week. While 36 persons recovered, 30 more received positive test results, upping the county’s running total to 12,987 cases. With the death recorded over the weekend, the active case count dropped by 7 to 132. During the same time span since Friday’s report, hospitalizations more than doubled to 9. The positive test rate was 18.75%.
Wisconsin added 713 new cases since Friday, 178 of those today, putting the running total at 566,871. The positive percentage, with 1,876 results negative today, was 8.6%. No deaths were added today, and the toll stands at 6,481. 27 more persons were admitted to hospitals for treatment of COVID-19, and after deaths and discharges, the patient total gained 6, to 255. 61 are in ICU beds, and 371 of the state’s 2,373 ventilators are reported in use.
The Sheboygan County Division of Public Health has begun providing multi-lingual editions of its daily COVID-19 reports, first in Spanish last week, and beginning on Monday, in Hmong.
The Hmong update can be accessed here.
The Spanish version is available here.
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