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Upper Peninsula adds 73 new virus cases

ESCANABA — Delta County has added 12 more confirmed COVID-19 positives and Menominee County three new cases, data from local health officials showed Thursday.

The Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties website update Thursday also listed eight more probable case in Delta County but one fewer probable case in Menominee County. Neither county reported any new deaths attributed to the virus.

As of Thursday, Delta County has had 3,121 confirmed positives, 589 probable and 86 deaths, according to PHDMC. Menominee County had 1,722 confirmed cases, 309 probable and 39 deaths. The deaths included confirmed and probable.

State COVID-19 data Thursday showed 13 more confirmed COVID-19 positives in Delta County four in Schoolcraft County and two in Menominee County.

For the Upper Peninsula, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ coronavirus website Thursday listed 73 new confirmed positives: 26 in Marquette County; 13 in Delta County; seven in Chippewa County; five in Alger County; four in Schoolcraft, Baraga and Mackinac counties; two in Dickinson, Menominee, Iron and Ontonagon counties; and one each in Houghton and Keweenaw counties.

Using only the state’s figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Thursday has had 18,687 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 405 deaths.

Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Thursday had Keweenaw County at 137 confirmed cases and 31 probable, and one confirmed death and one probable death; Luce County, 164 confirmed cases and 164 probable, one probable death; Schoolcraft County, 286 confirmed cases and 53 probable, four deaths and one probable; Alger County, 306 confirmed, 184 probable and two deaths, four probable; Mackinac County, 374 confirmed cases and 220 probable, three deaths; Ontonagon County, 392 confirmed, 56 probable and 20 deaths, one probable; Baraga County, 545 confirmed cases, 111 probable and 33 deaths; Iron County, 915 confirmed cases and 63 probable, 42 deaths and nine probable; Chippewa County, 996 confirmed cases and 1,314 probable, and 27 deaths, six probable; Gogebic County, 997 confirmed cases and 359 probable, 22 deaths and 28 probable; Menominee County, 1,717 confirmed cases, 308 probable and 39 deaths, two probable; Dickinson County, 2,323 confirmed cases and 303 probable, 56 deaths and 16 probable; Houghton County, 2,409 confirmed cases, 595 probable, 32 deaths and eight probable; Delta County, 3,108 confirmed cases and 578 probable, 68 deaths and 19 probable; and Marquette County, 4,018 confirmed cases, 761 probable and 56 deaths, one probable. State numbers are updated almost daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

The MDHHS on Thursday posted 4,867 confirmed new coronavirus positives in Michigan for a total to date of 809,591. The state recorded 108 deaths attributed to the virus Thursday — including 75 that happened earlier but recently were verified through vital records and testing, according to the MDHHS — to reach 17,139.

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