The state Department of Health Services announced Wednesday there are 1,550 positive cases of COVID-19 in Wisconsin, as well as 18,819 negative tests. However, the number continues to grow as counties announce positive cases.
According to figures from DHS, 24 people in Wisconsin have died from COVID-19 as of Wednesday afternoon. That doesn’t include five additional deaths reported in Milwaukee County.
Milwaukee’s African American community has been hit particularly hard during the pandemic. The majority of deaths in the county have been African Americans living on the city’s northwest side.
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The number of positive test results increased by 199 from Tuesday to Wednesday. The number of negative test results increased by 1,444.
For the first time since the disease was found in the state, DHS has begun to share the number of negative test results for each county. The agency has also begun to share the number of hospitalizations in the state, which, as of 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, was 398 people, or 26 percent of the positive cases.
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