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ESCANABA -- State data Friday showed a new confirmed COVID-19 positive in both Delta and Schoolcraft counties.
In its report, local health officials Friday also listed a new confirmed case in Delta County, but Menominee County's numbers were unchanged.
The Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties website had Delta County at 3,352 confirmed positives, 719 probable cases and 94 deaths. Menominee County has had 1,806 confirmed positives, 332 probable and 40 deaths. The deaths included confirmed and probable.
At the state level Friday, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services' coronavirus website since Tuesday added 25 new confirmed positives in the Upper Peninsula for the three-day period: 10 in Gogebic County; six in Chippewa County; two in Iron and Mackinac counties; and one each in Delta, Schoolcraft, Dickinson, Marquette and Luce counties. No new deaths were recorded.
Using only the MDHHS figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Friday has had 20,173 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 442 deaths.
Across the U.P., the MDHHS data Friday had Keweenaw County at 142 confirmed cases and 32 probable, and one confirmed death and one probable death; Luce County, 227 confirmed cases and 254 probable, four confirmed deaths and one probable death; Alger County, 323 confirmed, 196 probable and three deaths, four probable; Schoolcraft County, 355 confirmed cases and 84 probable, four deaths and one probable; Ontonagon County, 423 confirmed, 61 probable and 20 deaths, one probable; Mackinac County, 461 confirmed cases and 256 probable, three deaths; Baraga County, 695 confirmed cases, 128 probable and 39 deaths; Iron County, 994 confirmed cases and 70 probable, 43 deaths and 10 probable; Gogebic County, 1,073 confirmed cases and 364 probable, 23 deaths and 29 probable; Chippewa County, 1,114 confirmed cases and 1,424 probable, and 28 deaths, six probable; Menominee County, 1,803 confirmed cases, 330 probable and 41 deaths, two probable; Dickinson County, 2,415 confirmed cases and 345 probable, 59 deaths and 15 probable; Houghton County, 2,536 confirmed cases, 607 probable, 35 deaths and eight probable; Delta County, 3,347 confirmed cases and 714 probable, 76 deaths and 19 probable; and Marquette County, 4,265 confirmed cases, 826 probable and 63 deaths, one probable. State figures are updated regularly but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.
The MDHHS on Friday added 881 confirmed new coronavirus positives in Michigan since its last update Tuesday for a total to date of 897,598. The state Friday had 16 new deaths attributed to the virus -- including seven that happened earlier but recently were verified through vital records and testing -- to reach 19,848.
The state last week began posting new COVID data only twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays.