Wisconsin health officials report more than 2,000 new COVID-19 cases for the third day in a row – Post-Crescent

For the third day in a row, Wisconsin health officials reported more than 2,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 throughout the state.

Saturday's 2,283 positive casesmade up 18.3% of the 12,472 test results reported by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. The average number of new daily cases over the last seven dayswashigher than ever Saturdayat 1,708.

Positive tests reported on Thursday, Friday and Saturday totaled 6,850, marking the highest number of positive tests over a three-day period in Wisconsin.On Friday, a record high 2,533new confirmed cases of COVID-19 was reported. The previousday, Thursday, saw 2,034new positive tests, the third highest single-day total, according to DHS.

The state health department also reported Saturday that three more people had died, bringing the total number of deathsin Wisconsin due to the coronavirus to 1,241.

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More than 1.4million Wisconsinites have been tested for the virus since the pandemic began.Of the 99,562 who have tested positive:

As of Friday afternoon, 342people with COVID-19 were hospitalized and 98of them were in intensive care, according to DHS. An additional 121hospital patients were awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test.

Globally, confirmed cases of COVID-19 have passed 30 million and nearly 1 million people have died, according to Johns Hopkins University data.As of Saturday afternoon inthe United States, 6.7 million people have tested positive and more than 198,900 have died.

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Contact Natalie Brophy at (715) 216-5452 or nbrophy@gannett.com. Followher on Twitter @brophy_natalie.

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