All 72 Wisconsin counties now have confirmed COVID-19, with Langlade, Taylor reporting first cases

The coronavirus has now been found in all of Wisconsin's 72 counties, as health officials in Langlade and Taylor counties reported their first cases Wednesday.

Each of the two north central Wisconsin counties reported that a single resident tested positive — the final counties to confirm cases more than two months after Gov. Tony Evers issued a safer-at-home order to flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic. The reports also came exactly a week after the state Supreme Court struck down Evers' order, allowing businesses around the state to reopen immediately. 

In Taylor County, the person who tested positive had contact with another northern Wisconsin resident who had a confirmed case of the virus, according to a news release from the Taylor County Health Department. In Langlade County, health officials are still working to determine how the person who tested positive was exposed to the virus, according to a news release from the Langlade County Health Department.

Both people are isolating in their homes.

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The health departments did not release any further information about the two patients, such as their age, gender or where they live. 

Health officials in both counties are working to determine who else the two people have been in contact with. Those who could have been infected will be required to quarantine at home for two weeks. Health officials will contact those people. 

Both health departments encouraged residents to continue practicing social distancing, wear masks in public, stay home if they are sick and maintain good hygiene, including washing your hands. 

At the beginning of May, six Wisconsin counties had yet to report confirmed cases of COVID-19. Those counties were Lincoln, Taylor, Langlade, Forest, Pepin and Burnett. All later reported confirmed cases after testing capabilities began to increase statewide. 

As of Wednesday afternoon, 13,413 people in Wisconsin have tested positive for COVID-19 and 481 people have died, according to the state Department of Health Services. 

Contact Natalie Brophy at (715) 216-5452 or nbrophy@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @brophy_natalie.