There were 922confirmed cases of COVID-19 and one coronavirus-related death statewide, health officials reported Sunday.

The positive cases make up9.6% of the 9,643 tests processed since Saturday, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

As of Sunday,337people were in hospitals with known cases of the virus. Of those, 110were in intensive care, according to the Wisconsin Hospital Association.

Over 54,920people have tested positive for the virus; 9,994of reported cases remain active, while 80.1% of people have recovered from COVID-19.

The Department of Health's weekly ratings of county COVID-19 activity were reportedWednesday.Note that ratings are based on a combination of total new cases per 100,000 people over the past two weeks and the percent change in new cases between the past seven days and the seven days before that. Parentheses reflect a change in the activity level from the previous week's rating.

Global cases have surpassed 17.8million, and deaths neared 680,800as of mid-Sunday, according to Johns Hopkins University.More than 4.6million of those cases and 154,750 deaths were in the United States.

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

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