Delta County has 20 new virus cases, Menominee adds 13
ESCANABA — Local health officials Wednesday added 20 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Delta County since Monday, along with 13 new cases in Menominee County.
Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties also raised Delta County’s probable case count by 10 and Menominee County’s probables by eight.
The PHDM website Wednesday had Delta County at 3,629 confirmed positives, 780 probable cases and 94 deaths. Menominee County has had 1,920 confirmed positives, 414 probables and 41 deaths. The deaths included confirmed and probable.
On the state level, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Wednesday listed 18 more confirmed positives for both Delta and Menominee counties, the highest number of new cases in the past two days among the 15 Upper Peninsula counties.
The MDHHS reported 132 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Upper Peninsula since Monday, with only Keweenaw County not adding to its numbers: the 18 in Delta and Menominee counties; 14 in Houghton County; 13 in Marquette County; 10 each in Schoolcraft, Iron and Alger counties; nine in Gogebic County; eight in Baraga County; seven in Mackinac County; six in Dickinson County; four in Ontonagon County; three in Chippewa County; and two in Luce County. Houghton County also had a new death attributed to the virus.
Using only the MDHHS figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Wednesday has had 21,155 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 449 deaths.
Across the U.P., the MDHHS data Wednesday had Keweenaw County at 146 confirmed cases and 33 probable, and one confirmed death and one probable death; Luce County, 235 confirmed cases and 263 probable, four confirmed deaths and one probable death; Alger County, 343 confirmed, 206 probable and three deaths, four probable; Schoolcraft County, 381 confirmed cases and 97 probable, four deaths and one probable; Ontonagon County, 456 confirmed, 61 probable and 21 deaths, one probable; Mackinac County, 504 confirmed cases and 274 probable, three deaths; Baraga County, 727 confirmed cases, 129 probable and 40 deaths; Iron County, 1,038 confirmed cases and 73 probable, 43 deaths and 10 probable; Gogebic County, 1,147 confirmed cases and 370 probable, 24 deaths and 29 probable; Chippewa County, 1,167 confirmed cases and 1,485 probable, and 29 deaths, five probable; Menominee County, 1,916 confirmed cases, 408 probable and 42 deaths, two probable; Dickinson County, 2,479 confirmed cases and 415 probable, 59 deaths and 15 probable; Houghton County, 2,647 confirmed cases, 626 probable, 36 deaths and eight probable; Delta County, 3,622 confirmed cases and 770 probable, 76 deaths and 19 probable; and Marquette County, 4,347 confirmed cases, 871 probable and 64 deaths, one probable. State figures can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.
The MDHHS on Wednesday had 4,326 confirmed new coronavirus positives in Michigan since Monday, or an average of about 2,163 per day for the two days, for a total to date of 937,720. The state Wednesday added 38 deaths attributed to the virus — including 10 that occurred earlier but were recently verified through a vital records review — to reach 20,161.
The state now provides updated COVID-19 figures on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.




