ESCANABA — As of Thursday, the U.P. had 16,149 confirmed cases of COVID-19 (an increase of 30 cases in 24 hours), 3,948 probable cases, 376 deaths and 91 probable deaths linked to the disease, according to state officials.

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

According to the state’s county-by-county count issued Thursday, Delta County had a total of 2,630 confirmed COVID-19 cases (an increase of one case), 462 probable cases, 65 deaths and 19 probable deaths; Menominee County had 1,606 confirmed cases (an increase of four cases), 257 probable cases, 35 deaths and two probable deaths; Schoolcraft County had 229 confirmed cases (unchanged), 28 probable cases, four deaths and one probable death.

The LMAS District Health Department, which serves Luce, Mackinac, Alger and Schoolcraft County has reported 1,152 recovered cases or probable cases, as of Thursday, February 4. However, more recoveries are possible, as the LMAS Health District only reports their cases weekly.

Elsewhere in the peninsula, Alger County had 275 confirmed cases, 156 probable cases, one death and two probable deaths; Baraga County had 497 confirmed cases, 98 probable cases, and 31 deaths; Chippewa County had 707 confirmed cases, 1,012 probable cases, 20 deaths and four probable deaths; Dickinson County had 2,116 confirmed cases, 236 probable cases, 55 deaths and 14 probable deaths; Gogebic County had 892 confirmed cases, 335 probable cases, 18 deaths and 28 probable deaths; Houghton County had 2,028 confirmed cases, 500 probable cases, 32 deaths and eight probable deaths; Iron County had 862 confirmed cases, 62 probable cases, 39 deaths and nine probable deaths; Keweenaw County had 112 confirmed cases, 26 probable cases, one death and one probable death; Luce County had 132 confirmed cases, 82 probable cases and one probable deaths; Mackinac County had 279 confirmed cases, 150 probable cases and three deaths; Marquette County had 3,432 confirmed cases, 493 probable cases, 54 deaths and one probable death; and Ontonagon County had 352 confirmed cases, 51 probable cases, 18 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 Thursday, the MDOC had 23,475 confirmed cases of COVID-19 cases, 755 probable cases, 144 deaths and three probable deaths.

The Michigan Department of Corrections (MODC) has learned of the detection of the SARS-CoV-2, B.1.1.7 variant at the Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility in Ionia. The MDOC Under an Emergency Public Health order issued by MDHHS on February 10, it will require daily testing of all

employees at a facility where an outbreak of special concern has been declared for at least 14 days.

Note on Thursday’s deaths regular reviews of death certificate data maintained in Vital Records reporting systems are conducted by MDHHS staff three times per week. As a part of this process, records that identify COVID-19 infection as a contributing factor to death are compared against all laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Michigan Disease Surveillance System (MDSS). If a death certificate is matched to a confirmed COVID-19 case and that record in the MDSS does not indicate the individual died, the MDSS record is updated to indicate the death and the appropriate local health department is notified. These matched deaths are then included with mortality information posted to the Michigan Coronavirus website. As a result of the most recent assessment, today‚Äôs data includes 55 additional deaths identified by this methodology.