New COVID-19 cases continue to slow in Upper Peninsula
ESCANABA — Local health officials reported Monday that Delta County had only two new confirmed COVID-19 positives and Menominee County no new cases since its last update Friday.
The Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties website Monday also added three more probable positives in Delta County and one probable in Menominee County. Neither county recorded a new coronavirus-related death.
As of Monday, Delta County has had 3,338 confirmed positives, 689 probable cases and 92 deaths, according to PHDMC. Menominee County had 1,786 confirmed positives, 327 probable and 40 deaths. The deaths included confirmed and probable.
State COVID-19 data Monday also indicated two more confirmed virus positives in Delta County and none in Menominee and Schoolcraft counties.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ coronavirus website Monday listed 18 new confirmed positives since Saturday’s update: three in Dickinson, Mackinac and Gogebic counties; two in Delta, Marquette and Baraga counties; and one each in Chippewa, Ontonagon and Houghton counties.
Using only the state’s figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Monday has had 19,896 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 428 deaths.
Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Monday had Keweenaw County at 143 confirmed cases and 32 probable, and one confirmed death and one probable death; Luce County, 210 confirmed cases and 248 probable, three confirmed death and one probable death; Alger County, 321 confirmed, 193 probable and two deaths, four probable; Schoolcraft County, 341 confirmed cases and 82 probable, four deaths and one probable; Ontonagon County, 415 confirmed, 58 probable and 20 deaths, one probable; Mackinac County, 449 confirmed cases and 250 probable, three deaths; Baraga County, 668 confirmed cases, 122 probable and 37 deaths; Iron County, 980 confirmed cases and 69 probable, 42 deaths and nine probable; Gogebic County, 1,037 confirmed cases and 362 probable, 22 deaths and 28 probable; Chippewa County, 1,072 confirmed cases and 1,390 probable, and 28 deaths, five probable; Menominee County, 1,783 confirmed cases, 325 probable and 40 deaths, two probable; Dickinson County, 2,392 confirmed cases and 335 probable, 59 deaths and 15 probable; Houghton County, 2,514 confirmed cases, 606 probable, 33 deaths and eight probable; Delta County, 3,332 confirmed cases and 683 probable, 74 deaths and 19 probable; and Marquette County, 4,239 confirmed cases, 814 probable and 60 deaths, one probable. State numbers are updated almost daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.
The MDHHS on Monday posted 1,378 confirmed new coronavirus positives in Michigan since Saturday for a total to date of 884,580. The state Monday had 14 deaths attributed to the virus for the two-day period to reach 18,953.



