Reports of new infections being reported daily across the country in mid-July remain at the top, while at one time, more than 75,000 cases were reported in a single day. Some places, such as New York City, have seen a sharp and steady decline in infections since the city became epidemic in April. But in other areas students had to struggle to stop the case from returning as they arrived in college-led towns and some primary and secondary schools opened their doors.
Infections in Wisconsin are driven partly driven by young people, including college college students, testing positive in places like Madison and La Cross.
Coloro, which averaged the state’s second-highest infection rate last week, was linked to fraternity and sorority homes at the University of Colorado Boulder, five of the six active ones, according to the state database.
About 87 percent of the recorded cases in La Crosse County, along the Mississippi River on Friday, were among people aged 10 to 29, according to The La Cross Tribune. The number has been driven somewhat by infection spots at the University of Wisconsin-La Cross, where about 250 people have tested positive in the past nine days and where a full fresh hostel was ordered to be sheltered last week.
There has also been a sharp rise in cases in Utah, which recorded more than 1,000 infections for the first time on Friday.
Utah has recently come under fire from school teachers, who said this week that the governor and school officials had failed to protect them despite many schools being open despite more than 15 positive cases being reported between staff members and students.
And Montana filed more than 250 new cases on Saturday, a one-day record. More cases have been announced in the state in the last week than in the other seven-day period. The total number of cases per capita in Montana is the lowest in the country.
