UPDATE 8:25 p.m. Friday:
The Milwaukee Health Department says they have their first presumptive case of COVID-19. The person with the virus is a Milwaukee woman in her early 30s.
She is in home isolation as the department is working to identify people who had close contact with this person to assist with monitoring and self-quarantine.
UPDATE 6:50 p.m. Friday:
The North Shore Health Department confirmed Friday they are handling one of the two positive COVID-19 cases reported in Milwaukee County.
Health Director Ann Christiansen says the person in question had traveled overseas. The person returned home to find out the people he was in contact with tested positive for the virus. Once he started to show symptoms, he went to get tested. They did return positive Friday.
Original Post:
For the first time, Milwaukee County reportedy has a confirmed COVID-19 coronavirus case in the current outbreak.
Two cases have come in our county along with six total now in Fond du Lac County and three more in Sheboygan County, among 18 total cases in the state.
That is more than double the amount listed on Thursday for Wisconsin.
TMJ4 News cites this list of cases:
- 6 in Fond du Lac County
- 4 in Dane County
- 3 in Sheboygan County
- 2 in Milwaukee County
- 1 each in Racine, Waukesha, and Pierce Counties.
