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COVID-19 deaths seen in Delta, Menominee

ESCANABA — Local data Monday showed Delta County has added 65 confirmed COVID-19 positives and Menominee County 28 cases since Wednesday, with both counties also reporting another death blamed on the coronavirus.

Menominee County had 17 probable cases as well and Delta County 15 probables for the five-day period, according to Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties website.

The PHDM on Monday had Delta County at 5,734 confirmed positives, 1,295 probable cases and 132 deaths. Menominee County has had 3,035 confirmed positives, 1,107 probables and 60 deaths. The deaths included confirmed and probable.

At the state level, figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Monday indicated 145 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in the Upper Peninsula since Friday: 31 in Delta County, 25 in Marquette County, 16 in Houghton County, 15 in Menominee County, 12 in Dickinson County, 10 in Gogebic County, eight in Chippewa County, seven in Iron and Baraga counties, four in Ontonagon and Mackinac counties, three in Alger County, and one each in Luce, Schoolcraft and Keweenaw counties. The state posted new virus-related deaths in Menominee and Alger counties.

Using only the MDHHS numbers, the Upper Peninsula as of Monday has had 35,120 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 635 deaths.

Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Monday had Keweenaw County at 344 confirmed cases and 43 probable, and 10 confirmed deaths and one probable death; Luce County, 455 confirmed cases and 535 probable, four confirmed deaths and one probable death; Ontonagon County, 654 confirmed, 78 probable and 25 deaths, one probable; Alger County, 679 confirmed, 378 probable and six deaths, five probable; Schoolcraft County, 806 confirmed cases and 366 probable, six deaths and one probable; Mackinac County, 1,078 confirmed cases and 574 probable, 17 deaths and one probable; Baraga County, 1,252 confirmed cases, 213 probable and 45 deaths, two probable; Iron County, 1,645 confirmed cases and 191 probable, 57 deaths and 13 probable; Gogebic County, 1,860 confirmed cases and 428 probable, 33 deaths and 29 probable; Chippewa County, 2,036 confirmed cases and 2,889 probable, and 52 deaths, 11 probable; Menominee County, 3,030 confirmed cases, 1,101 probable and 52 deaths, eight probable; Dickinson County, 3,596 confirmed cases and 1,387 probable, 74 deaths and 18 probable; Houghton County, 4,728 confirmed cases, 854 probable, 56 deaths and 10 probable; Delta County, 5,724 confirmed cases and 1,284 probable, 109 deaths and 22 probable; and Marquette County, 7,233 confirmed cases, 1,660 probable and 89 deaths, five probable. State figures can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

The MDHHS on Monday had 13,999 new confirmed coronavirus positives in Michigan since Friday, or an average of about 4,666 per day for the three-day period, for a total to date of 1,434,837. The state in that three-day period added 160 deaths attributed to the virus — including 63 that occurred earlier but were recently verified through a vital records review — to reach 25,984.

The state issues new COVID-19 data on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

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