DHS: 805 new COVID-19 cases, eight more deaths 

The Department of Health Services reported 805 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, for a total of 591,636.

The state’s death toll is at 6,718 people, after DHS reported eight more deaths.

An additional 4,315 Wisconsinites have been tested for COVID-19, for a total of 3,398,267.

DHS considers 8,972 cases active.

The seven-day average for daily new cases is 714, down 17 from Monday and 80 from a week ago.

The seven-day average for daily new deaths is four, the same as Monday and down two from a week ago.

As of Monday, the seven-day positivity rate by test was 3.5 percent, the same as Sunday and down 0.3 percentage points from a week earlier, per preliminary data from DHS.

Wisconsin vaccinators administered 3,920,796 doses of COVID-19 vaccine through Monday.

They gave 22,336 doses on Monday, with a seven-day average of 45,048 daily shots.

Per state data, 40.4 percent of the state’s population, or 2,350,330 Wisconsinites, have received at least one dose of a vaccine, and 28.1 percent, or 1,635,592 Wisconsinites, have completed their vaccination series.