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.