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Weather Alert

Weather Alert

...AIR QUALITY ADVISORY ISSUED FOR SOUTHEASTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL
WISCONSIN...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has issued an Air
Quality Advisory for Ozone which will remain in effect until
11:00 PM CDT tonight. This advisory affects people living in the
following counties: Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green
Lake, Jefferson, Kenosha, Marquette, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine,
Rock, Sauk, Sheboygan, Walworth, Washington, Waukesha.

Due to meteorological conditions conducive to ozone production,
the air quality index is expected to reach the UNHEALTHY FOR
SENSITIVE GROUPS level. People with lung disease (such as
asthma), children, older adults, and people who are active
outdoors (including outdoor workers) should reduce prolonged or
heavy outdoor exertion.

For more information on current air quality, please see:
https://airquality.wi.gov

Public encouraged to report at-home COVID-19 test results to paint better picture of where communities stand

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MADISON (WKOW) -- With the number of COVID-19 cases rising, so are sales of at-home COVID-19 tests. Those offer a convenient way to check your COVID-19 status, but not necessarily a convenient way to report it. Because of this, cases in Wisconsin could be much higher than we think.

"There's always going to be more cases than are reported," Morgan Finke, Communications Coordinator for Public Health Madison & Dane County said. "But, what we don't know is and what the million dollar question is... is to what degree that's true. And the answer to that could vary significantly from one community to another."

Right now, the seven-day average of cases reported each day in Dane County is 263. To give health officials a better picture of where COVID-19 cases stand and help with contact tracing efforts, however, Finke said people should report the results of their at-home test to their local health department.

"If you do get that positive test, then you know that you are encouraged to stay home obviously for five days and then mask if you leave again, five days after that. So, there are those specific guidelines and recommendations that people can take and we wouldn't be able to know that unless we did that contact tracing," Finke said.

You can report your COVID-19 status here. It takes less than five minutes.