ESCANABA — Delta County on Friday added 20 more confirmed COVID-19 positives since Wednesday, while Menominee County has three new cases, according to local health data.

Since reporting Aug. 5 that the delta variant of the coronavirus had surfaced, Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties had recorded 102 new confirmed positives in Delta County in a week’s span.

PHDM on Friday also lowered Delta County’s probable case count by one and raised Menominee County’s probables by six.

The PHDM website Friday had Delta County at 3,491 confirmed positives, 747 probable cases and 94 deaths. Menominee County has had 1,850 confirmed positives, 379 probable and 40 deaths. The deaths included confirmed and probable.

At the state level, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Friday listed 68 new confirmed positives in the Upper Peninsula since Wednesday: 29 in Delta County; 10 in Houghton County; seven in Gogebic County; six in Menominee and Marquette counties; four in Dickinson County; two in Ontonagon County; and one each in Schoolcraft, Chippewa, Mackinac and Baraga counties. The state also had a new death in Baraga County.

Using only the MDHHS figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Friday has had 20,595 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 447 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, 230 confirmed cases and 260 probable, four confirmed deaths and one probable death; Alger County, 324 confirmed, 200 probable and three deaths, four probable; Schoolcraft County, 364 confirmed cases and 91 probable, four deaths and one probable; Ontonagon County, 429 confirmed, 62 probable and 21 deaths, one probable; Mackinac County, 469 confirmed cases and 260 probable, three deaths; Baraga County, 705 confirmed cases, 131 probable and 40 deaths; Iron County, 1,010 confirmed cases and 73 probable, 43 deaths and 10 probable; Gogebic County, 1,119 confirmed cases and 371 probable, 24 deaths and 29 probable; Chippewa County, 1,142 confirmed cases and 1,451 probable, and 29 deaths, five probable; Menominee County, 1,847 confirmed cases, 375 probable and 41 deaths, two probable; Dickinson County, 2,450 confirmed cases and 368 probable, 59 deaths and 15 probable; Houghton County, 2,586 confirmed cases, 613 probable, 35 deaths and eight probable; Delta County, 3,485 confirmed cases and 741 probable, 76 deaths and 19 probable; and Marquette County, 4,293 confirmed cases, 841 probable and 64 deaths, one probable. State figures are updated regularly but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

The MDHHS on Friday had 3,127 confirmed new coronavirus positives in Michigan since Wednesday, or an average of 1,564 per day for the two days, for a total to date of 919,133. The state Friday added 29 deaths attributed to the virus — including 14 that occurred earlier but were recently verified through a vital records review — to reach 20,011.

The state in July began posting new COVID data only twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, when the level of virus activity slowed. With cases climbing again, updates are being provided on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays starting this week.