Coronavirus
La Crosse County, Wisconsin both set daily COVID-19 case highs
A single-day record 47 cases of COVID-19 in La Crosse County on Friday, according to state data.
The number coincides with Wisconsin setting a daily record with 1,498 cases.
The previous high in La Crosse was Sunday with 39 cases, according to the county’s health department.
According to DHS, the high number is due to a delay in processing the tests, according to WPR.
“Problems with the laboratory test reporting over the last few days delayed the processing of the numbers until today, but that has now been fixed,” said a post on the DHS Facebook page. DHS had previously reported a brief outage of the Wisconsin Electronic Disease Surveillance System, which local health departments use to report COVID-19 cases.
Over the past two weeks, La Crosse has averaged 21.2 cases a day.
Along with the state’s record case count, there were also 52 hospitalizations and seven deaths reported.
Meanwhile, in Winona County, another 15 cases, bringing the total there to 550.
The 15 cases Friday was actually on the low side, as compared to the past eight days, where the county has averaged 23.5 cases.
In Trempealeau County, there were another six cases, bringing the total there to 437. Trempealeau has had 31 cases the past four days.
STATE TOTALS
Wisconsin: 79,354 cases, 5,998 hospitalizations 1,153 deaths
Minnesota: 78,996 cases, 6,635 hospitalizations, 1,847 deaths
Iowa: 68,203 cases, 1,141 deaths
Minnesota added 856 cases, 43 hospitalizations and 10 deaths.
And Iowa data shows another 1,183 cases, three deaths the past 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. Friday.
