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State records virus death in Menominee

ESCANABA — State data Tuesday showed three more confirmed COVID-19 positives in Menominee County, along with a new coronavirus-related death.

The Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties website, however, did not record another death in Menominee County and had only two new confirmed positives Tuesday. Local figures for Delta County stayed the same from the last update Thursday.

The PHDMC listed Delta County at 3,350 confirmed positives, 717 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 Tuesday, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ coronavirus website since the last update Friday also added four more confirmed cases in Gogebic County and two each in Dickinson and Marquette counties, while Chippewa County’s count was reduced by one.

Using only the MDHHS figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Tuesday has had 20,107 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 443 deaths.

Across the U.P., the MDHHS data Tuesday had Keweenaw County at 142 confirmed cases and 32 probable, and one confirmed death and one probable death; Luce County, 226 confirmed cases and 255 probable, four confirmed deaths and one probable death; Alger County, 323 confirmed, 196 probable and three deaths, four probable; Schoolcraft County, 354 confirmed cases and 84 probable, four deaths and one probable; Ontonagon County, 421 confirmed, 61 probable and 20 deaths, one probable; Mackinac County, 458 confirmed cases and 256 probable, three deaths; Baraga County, 695 confirmed cases, 128 probable and 39 deaths; Iron County, 985 confirmed cases and 69 probable, 43 deaths and 10 probable; Gogebic County, 1,048 confirmed cases and 363 probable, 23 deaths and 29 probable; Chippewa County, 1,096 confirmed cases and 1,418 probable, and 28 deaths, six probable; Menominee County, 1,802 confirmed cases, 330 probable and 42 deaths, two probable; Dickinson County, 2,414 confirmed cases and 344 probable, 59 deaths and 15 probable; Houghton County, 2,536 confirmed cases, 607 probable, 35 deaths and eight probable; Delta County, 3,345 confirmed cases and 712 probable, 76 deaths and 19 probable; and Marquette County, 4,262 confirmed cases, 827 probable and 63 deaths, one probable. State figures are updated almost daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

The MDHHS on Tuesday added 438 confirmed new coronavirus positives in Michigan since its last update Friday for a total to date of 895,395. The state Tuesday had 21 new deaths attributed to the virus — including 16 that happened earlier but recently were verified through vital records and testing — to reach 19,775.

The state starting this week will post new COVID-19 data only twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays.

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