By Lynn Binnie
Whitewater Banner volunteer staff
whitewaterbanner@gmail.co

The Walworth County Health & Human Services Department stated in its February 10 weekly report that the county, along with 15 other WI counties, moved from Wisconsin’s critically high to very high COVID disease activity level. The transmission level for the past week decreased to 372.59 cases per 100,000 from 707.53 cases per 100,000 the previous week.

Walworth County statistics as of February 10 may be viewed here. 14.2% of ICU beds in the county were reported as being available, compared with 7.7% two weeks ago. Updated: We previously reported the two weeks ago statistic as .077%; 7.7% is correct.

Information on testing sites, including at UW-Whitewater, may be found here. As was previously announced on the Banner, the federal government is now mailing four at-home COVID-19 test kits to any residence upon request. Those tests have started to be delivered.