By Shereen Siewert
State health officials on Thursday are reporting a second death related to complications from COVID-19.
No additional information was immediately available from Marathon County, which has 326 confirmed coronavirus cases as of July 16. That number is up from 312 one day earlier.
Lincoln County now sits at 25 cases, while Clark County has 128, with seven fatalities. Portage County has 263 cases.
Marathon County this week launched a dashboard for residents that shows rates of infection and testing as well as the overall level of coronavirus activity for the week. Case demographics and other data are also available on the dashboard, which will be updated each weekday afternoon. Today’s dashboard was not yet updated as of 2:10 p.m. but the current numbers are available on the state DHS website.
See the full dashboard here.
This story will be updated when information from the Marathon County Health Department is issued.
