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ESCANABA -- Local health officials have reported another 41 confirmed COVID-19 positives in Delta County this week, along with 16 new cases and a death attributed to the virus in Menominee County.
State data Friday showed the pace of COVID-19 activity escalating across the Upper Peninsula, adding 144 new confirmed cases in the past two days. Gogebic County was the only one among the U.P.'s 15 counties without a new positive; its total actually was decreased by four.
Locally, Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties also raised Delta County's probable case count by 12 and Menominee County's probables by 14.
The PHDM website Friday had Delta County at 3,583 confirmed positives, 763 probable cases and 94 deaths. Menominee County has had 1,894 confirmed positives, 400 probables and 41 deaths. The deaths included confirmed and probable.
On the state level, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website listed for the Upper Peninsula since Wednesday 37 new confirmed positives in Delta County; 21 in Marquette County; 14 in Menominee County; 13 in Mackinac County; 11 in Chippewa County; 10 in Ontonagon County; nine in Baraga County; eight in Houghton County; six in Iron and Alger counties; three in Keweenaw County; and two each in Schoolcraft, Dickinson and Luce counties. The state also showed the virus-related death in Menominee County.
Using only the MDHHS figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Friday has had 20,925 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 448 deaths.
Across the U.P., the MDHHS data Friday had Keweenaw County at 145 confirmed cases and 32 probable, and one confirmed death and one probable death; Luce County, 233 confirmed cases and 261 probable, four confirmed deaths and one probable death; Alger County, 332 confirmed, 204 probable and three deaths, four probable; Schoolcraft County, 371 confirmed cases and 94 probable, four deaths and one probable; Ontonagon County, 448 confirmed, 63 probable and 21 deaths, one probable; Mackinac County, 488 confirmed cases and 265 probable, three deaths; Baraga County, 718 confirmed cases, 130 probable and 40 deaths; Iron County, 1,021 confirmed cases and 73 probable, 43 deaths and 10 probable; Gogebic County, 1,135 confirmed cases and 370 probable, 24 deaths and 29 probable; Chippewa County, 1,155 confirmed cases and 1,155 probable, and 29 deaths, five probable; Menominee County, 1,887 confirmed cases, 393 probable and 42 deaths, two probable; Dickinson County, 2,468 confirmed cases and 399 probable, 59 deaths and 15 probable; Houghton County, 2,623 confirmed cases, 622 probable, 35 deaths and eight probable; Delta County, 3,573 confirmed cases and 753 probable, 76 deaths and 19 probable; and Marquette County, 4,328 confirmed cases, 860 probable and 64 deaths, one probable. State figures can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.
The MDHHS on Friday had 4,197 confirmed new coronavirus positives in Michigan since Wednesday, or an average of about 2,098 per day for the two days, for a total to date of 929,574. The state Friday added 37 deaths attributed to the virus -- including 13 that occurred earlier but were recently verified through a vital records review -- to reach 20,076.
The state now provides updated COVID-19 figures on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.