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ESCANABA -- Local data Friday showed Delta County has had 23 new confirmed COVID-19 positives since Wednesday, along with a new death blamed on the coronavirus, while Menominee County added 19 cases.
Delta County also had 13 probable cases and Menominee County 12 probables for the two-day period, according to Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties website.
The PHDM on Friday had Delta County at 5,598 confirmed positives, 1,268 probable cases and 129 deaths. Menominee County has had 2,968 confirmed positives, 1,068 probables and 58 deaths. The deaths included confirmed and probable.
At the state level, figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Friday indicated 242 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in the Upper Peninsula since Wednesday: 64 in Marquette County, 30 in Delta County, 26 in Dickinson County, 23 in Menominee County, 20 in Gogebic County, 19 in Houghton County, 14 in Chippewa County, 12 in Iron County, 10 in Baraga County, seven in Schoolcraft County, six in Luce County, four in Mackinac and Ontonagon counties, and three in Alger County. The state posted two more virus-related deaths in Chippewa County and one each in Delta, Dickinson, Marquette, Houghton and Gogebic counties.
Using only the MDHHS numbers, the Upper Peninsula as of Friday has had 34,233 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 614 deaths.
Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Friday had Keweenaw County at 343 confirmed cases and 43 probable, and eight confirmed deaths and one probable death; Luce County, 438 confirmed cases and 502 probable, four confirmed deaths and one probable death; Ontonagon County, 633 confirmed, 77 probable and 24 deaths, one probable; Alger County, 659 confirmed, 364 probable and four deaths, five probable; Schoolcraft County, 781 confirmed cases and 345 probable, six deaths and one probable; Mackinac County, 1,048 confirmed cases and 549 probable, 16 deaths and one probable; Baraga County, 1,226 confirmed cases, 209 probable and 44 deaths, two probable; Iron County, 1,604 confirmed cases and 188 probable, 57 deaths and 13 probable; Gogebic County, 1,788 confirmed cases and 426 probable, 29 deaths and 29 probable; Chippewa County, 1,982 confirmed cases and 2,795 probable, and 51 deaths, 11 probable; Menominee County, 2,959 confirmed cases, 1,059 probable and 50 deaths, eight probable; Dickinson County, 3,522 confirmed cases and 1,322 probable, 72 deaths and 17 probable; Houghton County, 4,608 confirmed cases, 846 probable, 53 deaths and 10 probable; Delta County, 5,588 confirmed cases and 1,257 probable, 108 deaths and 21 probable; and Marquette County, 7,054 confirmed cases, 1,620 probable and 88 deaths, five probable. State figures can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.
The MDHHS had 11,783 new confirmed coronavirus positives in Michigan since Wednesday, or an average of about 5,892 per day for the two-day period, for a total to date of 1,380,324. The state since Wednesday has added 235 deaths attributed to the virus -- including 151 that occurred earlier but were recently verified through a vital records review -- to reach 25,080.
The state issues new COVID-19 data on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.