Coronavirus in Wisconsin: State reaches nearly 8,000 cases, 339 deaths from COVID-19 – Green Bay Press Gazette

The state Department of Health Services onSunday reported 304 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, and four more deaths in Wisconsin.

The new cases bring the statewide's total to 7,964 cases and 339 deaths as of Sunday. Almost 80,000 people have tested negative for the virus.

Burnett, Forest, Langlade, Pepin and Taylor counties remain the only counties with no confirmed cases, according to DHS.

Gov. Tony Evers announced Sunday that the Wisconsin National Guard willassist state and local health officials holdnew community testing eventsin northwestern Wisconsin counties that, to date, have had a lack of testing or high rates of COVID-19.

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The breakdown of confirmed cases from DHS by county is as follows:

Note that the state's totals are frozen once each day and may not match up-to-date county figures.

The state Supreme Court is scheduled to decide whether or not to keep Evers' stay-at-order order in place after Republican lawmakers filed a lawsuit challenging the order last week.

Almost 3.5 million cases of the virus have been confirmed across the globe, according to the Johns Hopkins University globalcasedashboard.

Contact Benita Mathew at (920) 309-3428 or bmathew@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @benita_mathew.

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