DHS reports 178 new cases of COVID-19

The Department of Health Services reported

178 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, for a total of 566,871.

DHS reported zero deaths. The state’s death toll remains at 6,481.

An additional 2,054 Wisconsinites were tested for COVID-19, for a total of 3,216,611.

DHS considers 6,580 cases active.

The seven-day average

for daily new cases is 371, down 19 from Sunday and 239 from a week ago.

The seven-day average

for daily new deaths is 10, the same as Sunday and down eight from a week ago.

As of Sunday, the seven-day positivity rate by test was 2.2 percent, up 0.1 percentage points from Saturday and the same as a week earlier, per preliminary data from DHS.

Wisconsin vaccinators administered 1,713,382 doses of COVID-19 vaccine through Sunday.

Per state data, 18.4 percent of the state’s population, or 1,072,650 Wisconsinites, have received first doses, and 10.4 percent, or 603,600 Wisconsinites, have completed the vaccine series.