ESCANABA — Delta County marked its first COVID-19 related death since Dec. 29 Monday.

As of Monday, the U.P. had 15,415 confirmed cases of COVID-19, 3,673 probable cases, 348 deaths and 348 probable deaths linked to the disease, according to state officials.

Today’s daily case count represents new referrals of confirmed cases to the Michigan Disease Surveillance System since Saturday, Jan. 16. These cases are deaths that are not initially identified as COVID-19 related, but are of “natural causes” within 30 days of a confirmed infection. Over the two days, Sunday and Monday, the average number of new confirmed cases is 1,421 per day.

The figure does not include prisoners in the Michigan Department of Corrections.

According to the state’s county-by-county count issued Monday, Delta County had a total of 2,579 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 446 probable cases, 61 deaths and 18 probable deaths; Menominee County had 1,555 confirmed cases, 245 probable cases, 34 deaths and two probable deaths; Schoolcraft County had 225 confirmed cases, 22 probable cases, four deaths and one probable death.

Elsewhere in the peninsula, Alger County had 236 confirmed cases, 142 probable cases, one death and two probable deaths; Baraga County had 480 confirmed cases, 90 probable cases, and 29 deaths; Chippewa County had 671 confirmed cases, 973 probable cases, 16 deaths and two probable deaths; Dickinson County had 2,067 confirmed cases, 216 probable cases, 56 deaths and 14 probable deaths; Gogebic County had 787 confirmed cases, 303 probable cases, 16 deaths and 24 probable deaths; Houghton County had 1,873 confirmed cases, 453 probable cases, 27 deaths and seven probable deaths; Iron County had 827 confirmed cases, 63 probable cases, 32 deaths and five probable deaths; Keweenaw County had 96 confirmed cases, 20 probable cases, one death and one probable death; Luce County had 129 confirmed cases, and 70 probable cases; Mackinac County had 270 confirmed cases, 136 probable cases, and three deaths; Marquette County had 3,330 confirmed cases, 464 probable cases, 53 deaths and and one probable death; and Ontonagon County had 291 confirmed cases, 30 probable cases, 15 deaths and one probable death.

The state does not include infections or deaths within the Michigan Department of Corrections system in county-by-county counts, however, as of Monday, the MDOC had 22,345 confirmed cases, 657 probable cases, 133 deaths and three probable deaths according to state officials.