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New virus death in Delta County

ESCANABA — Local health officials Thursday reported another coronavirus-related death in Delta County along with a single new confirmed COVID-19 positive, while state data listed new deaths in both Delta and Menominee counties.

The Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties website Thursday showed no change in Menominee County’s virus numbers, despite the state’s posting. State figures are updated almost daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

As of Thursday, Delta County has had 3,341 confirmed positives, 692 probable cases and 93 deaths, according to PHDMC. Menominee County had 1,791 confirmed positives, 327 probable and 40 deaths. The deaths included confirmed and probable.

For the Upper Peninsula, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ coronavirus website Thursday added a net of 15 more confirmed positives: five in Baraga County; two in Menominee, Dickinson, Luce and Chippewa counties; and one each in Schoolcraft, Iron, and Houghton counties;

Mackinac County’s count was reduced by one. Delta and Menominee counties had the region’s only new deaths.

Using only the state’s figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Thursday has had 19,953 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 431 deaths.

Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Thursday had Keweenaw County at 143 confirmed cases and 32 probable, and one confirmed death and one probable death; Luce County, 218 confirmed cases and 251 probable, three confirmed death and one probable death; Alger County, 321 confirmed, 194 probable and two deaths, four probable; Schoolcraft County, 349 confirmed cases and 83 probable, four deaths and one probable; Ontonagon County, 415 confirmed, 59 probable and 20 deaths, one probable; Mackinac County, 452 confirmed cases and 252 probable, three deaths; Baraga County, 678 confirmed cases, 122 probable and 37 deaths; Iron County, 982 confirmed cases and 69 probable, 42 deaths and nine probable; Gogebic County, 1,038 confirmed cases and 362 probable, 22 deaths and 28 probable; Chippewa County, 1,077 confirmed cases and 1,393 probable, and 28 deaths, five probable; Menominee County, 1,788 confirmed cases, 325 probable and 41 deaths, two probable; Dickinson County, 2,396 confirmed cases and 335 probable, 59 deaths and 15 probable; Houghton County, 2,519 confirmed cases, 606 probable, 34 deaths and eight probable; Delta County, 3,334 confirmed cases and 687 probable, 75 deaths and 19 probable; and Marquette County, 4,243 confirmed cases, 818 probable and 60 deaths, one probable.

The MDHHS on Thursday posted 542 confirmed new coronavirus positives in Michigan for a total to date of 886,660. The state Thursday had 59 deaths attributed to the virus — including 48 that happened earlier but recently were verified through vital records and testing, according to the MDHHS — to reach 19,090.

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