Category Archives: State Covid-19 Updates

African Americans and Latinos account for about 13 percent of Wisconsin's population, but they represent half of the state's COVID-19 cases. State officials say 30 percent of the people who have died ...

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says Wisconsin needs a regional approach to re-opening businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. Republican lawmakers held news conferences today in Appleton, Wausau and C...

Richelieu Foods is closing its Beaver Dam facility for the rest of the week after eight employees tested positive for coronavirus. The food-labeling company plans to test all 420 workers with assistan...

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says state hospitals will have to meet three new criteria before Safer at Home restrictions will be eased. Ninety-five percent of hospitals will have to tre...

Today the Department of Health Services along with the State Emergency Operations Center launched hospital gating criteria as part of the Badger Bounce Back Plan. The criteria, developed with input fr...

Confirmed cases: 8,245 (274 new) Deaths: 340 (1 new) Negative test results: 80,467 (2,470 new) Patients hospitalized: 1,621  

The state is offering a pay rate of 20 dollars-an-hour as it tries to hire a team of contact tracers. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services plans to bring up to one thousand onboard. Contact tra...

Gov. Tony Evers announced additional community testing events in northwest Wisconsin. The State Emergency Operations Center, Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS), Wisconsin Emergency Manageme...

Gov. Tony Evers announced today the state's plan to make Wisconsin one of the top states in testing per capita, in addition to already being one of the top states in COVID-19 testing capacity. Gov. Ev...

With shortages of sanitizers, disinfectants, masks, and paper products seen throughout the country since the COVID-19 virus first surfaced, BBB warns that websites selling these and other related prod...