Delta County adds 110 COVID cases, one death
ESCANABA — Local data Wednesday showed Delta County adding 110 confirmed COVID-19 positives in the past two days, along with another death blamed on the virus, while Menominee County had 26 new cases.
Delta County also had 70 probable virus cases and Menominee County 47 probables since Monday, according to the Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties website Wednesday.
The PHDM on Wednesday had Delta County at 6,350 confirmed positives, 1,532 probable cases and 139 deaths since the pandemic began. Menominee County has had 3,275 confirmed positives, 1,285 probables and 62 deaths. The deaths included confirmed and probable.
On the state level, figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Wednesday indicated 874 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in the Upper Peninsula since Monday: 225 in Marquette County, 108 in Delta County, 89 in Dickinson County, 83 in Houghton County, 81 in Chippewa County, 70 in Gogebic County, 53 in Baraga County, 36 in Iron and Mackinac counties, 33 in Schoolcraft County, 32 in Menominee County, 11 in Alger County, 10 in Ontonagon County, six in Luce County, and one in Keweenaw County. The state recorded two more virus-related deaths in Marquette County and one each in Delta, Dickinson, Iron, Houghton and Mackinac counties.
Using only the MDHHS numbers, the Upper Peninsula as of Wednesday has had 39,892 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 688 deaths.
Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Wednesday had Keweenaw County at 365 confirmed cases and 44 probable, and 10 confirmed deaths and one probable death; Luce County, 527 confirmed cases and 606 probable, four confirmed deaths and one probable death; Ontonagon County, 745 confirmed, 87 probable and 27 deaths, one probable; Alger County, 787 confirmed, 476 probable and six deaths, five probable; Schoolcraft County, 902 confirmed cases and 463 probable, eight deaths and one probable; Mackinac County, 1,221 confirmed cases and 679 probable, 22 deaths and two probable; Baraga County, 1,428 confirmed cases, 224 probable and 46 deaths, two probable; Iron County, 1,836 confirmed cases and 205 probable, 61 deaths and 13 probable; Gogebic County, 2,133 confirmed cases and 439 probable, 34 deaths and 29 probable; Chippewa County, 2,427 confirmed cases and 3,573 probable, and 60 deaths, 12 probable; Menominee County, 3,269 confirmed cases, 1,281 probable and 56 deaths, eight probable; Dickinson County, 3,985 confirmed cases and 1,727 probable, 77 deaths and 18 probable; Houghton County, 5,213 confirmed cases, 919 probable, 66 deaths and 11 probable; Delta County, 6,338 confirmed cases and 1,524 probable, 117 deaths and 22 probable; and Marquette County, 8,716 confirmed cases, 2,307 probable and 94 deaths, five probable. State figures can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.
The MDHHS on Wednesday had 28,458 new confirmed coronavirus positives in Michigan since Monday, or an average of 14,229 per day for the two-day period, for a total to date of 1,709,593. The state since Monday added 350 deaths attributed to the virus — including 282 that occurred earlier but were recently verified through a vital records review — to reach 28,228.
The state issues new COVID-19 data on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. It will not have an update Monday due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
The Upper Peninsula as of Wednesday had 73 people hospitalized with COVID-19, including 15 adults in intensive care and five on ventilators, according to Frontline UPdates JIC, a group of health care communication professionals from the U.P.
Statewide Wednesday, 4,519 adults were hospitalized with COVID-19 — plus 110 pediatric patients — with 803 adults in ICU beds and 514 on ventilators.


