DHS: 639 new COVID-19 cases, 13 more deaths

The Department of Health Services reported 639 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, for a total of 600,936.

The state’s death toll is 6,863, after DHS reported 13 more deaths.

An additional 5,026 Wisconsinites have been tested for COVID-19, for a total of 3,464,996.

DHS considers 8,628 cases active.

The seven-day average for daily new cases is 626, down seven from Tuesday and up 14 from a week ago.

The seven-day average for daily new deaths is eight, down three from Tuesday and four from a week ago.

As of Tuesday, the seven-day positivity rate by test was 3.4 percent, up 0.1 percentage points from Monday and up 0.2 percentage points from a week earlier, per preliminary data from DHS.

Per state data, 43.7 percent of the state’s population, or 2,544,399 Wisconsinites, have received at least one dose of a vaccine, and 35.3 percent, or 2,054,195 Wisconsinites, have completed their vaccination series.

Wisconsin vaccinators administered 4,539,012 doses of COVID-19 vaccine through Tuesday.

They gave 25,726 doses on Tuesday, with a seven-day average of 30,142 daily shots.