Wisconsin Hits Highest Single-Day Count for COVID Cases on Wednesday

Thursday, January 6th, 2022 -- 1:01 PM

(WMTV) For the second time this week, Wisconsin hit the highest single-day count for COVID-19 cases ever since the start of the pandemic.

This time, it was also the first time Wisconsin has exceeded 10,000 cases in one day. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reports 10,288 new cases of the coronavirus were confirmed Wednesday.

That’s more cases in one day than during the entire month of June, when there were 2,975 cases total. This new record-high smashes the previous record set just the day before, which was 8,232 cases.

DHS reports other previous highs in COVID-19 cases was on Dec. 29, 2021 (7,914 cases), Nov. 17, 2020 (7,870 cases) and Nov. 12, 2020 (7,866 cases). Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been 1,023,729 cases of the virus recorded in Wisconsin.

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