For the third day in a row, Wisconsin health officials reported more than 2,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 throughout the state.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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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:<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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