Wisconsin health officials reported 769 new positive cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, 10.1% of the 7,617tests processed since Saturday.

Sunday's total is the third highest number of new COVID-19 cases reported in a single day. On Saturday, the state health department reported926 new cases; on Friday,there were 845.

As of Sunday, 36,448Wisconsinites have tested positive for COVID-19 since March.

Health officials reported 820 total deaths on Sunday one fewer than Saturday's total of 821. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services website notes that data is subject to changeand "as individual cases are investigated by public health, there may be corrections to the status and details of cases that result in changes to this information."

As of Sunday, around 78% of all people diagnosed with COVID-19 in Wisconsin had recovered. There are 7,305 active cases, or 20%. The remaining 2% of people have died, according to the state health department.

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Statewide, 264people with COVID-19 were hospitalized as of Sunday morning, which is 20 morepeople than last Sunday, according to theWisconsin Hospital Association. Of those patients, 74are in the intensive care unit. Another 148hospitalized patients are waiting for the results of a COVID-19 test.

County activity ratings as of Wednesday, July 8, are as follows. Parentheses reflect a change in the activity level from last week's ratings.

Globally, more than 12.7 million people have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Sunday, according toJohns Hopkins University.Around a quarter of all positive cases are in the United States, where more than 3.2 million have tested positive and 135,000people have died.

Contact Natalie Brophy at (715) 216-5452 or nbrophy@gannett.com. Followher on Twitter @brophy_natalie.

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