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By Superior Telegram and Jen Zettel-Vandenhouten

March 19, 2021 at 2:28 PM

An additional 16 Northwestern Wisconsin residents tested positive for COVID-19 , the Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported Friday, March 19.

They were reported as follows: nine in Douglas, three in Burnett County, and one in each Ashland, Burnett, Sawyer and Taylor counties. No new cases were reported in Bayfield, Iron and Price counties. Rusk County has its confirmed cases reduced by one as DHS and local public health officials continue to correct data.

Statewide, an additional 390 cases were reported Friday, DHS said, bringing the total to 571,610.

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An additional six deaths reported statewide Friday, bringing the total to 6,562, DHS said. Overall, 1.1% of people who have contracted the virus have died.

The seven-day average of positive COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin dropped below 400 cases. On Friday, the figure was 386. The seven-day average of positive cases measures the average number of new cases per day over the previous week. An overall decrease in the seven-day average of positive cases indicates the number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in the state is also going down, according to DHS.

The number of negative tests in the state was 2,679,789 an increase of 1,898 on Friday.

An additional 30 people have been hospitalized Friday because of the virus since Thursday. Across the state, 27,024 Wisconsinites who contracted the virus have been hospitalized since the start of the pandemic, according to DHS.

Friday's report also showed that 97.7% of the people who have tested positive for the virus have recovered. That means 1.1%, or 6,386 cases, are currently active.

DHS also reports that 2,219,237 doses of vaccine have been administered by Friday with 1,384,774 Wisconsin residents, 23.8% of the population, receiving at least one dose of vaccine, and 811,217 people completing the vaccine series .

Here's the breakdown in the 10-county region: