ESCANABA — The winter surge of COVID-19 activity in the area continues to recede, with local data Friday showing Menominee County had 11 confirmed positives in the past two days and Delta County only seven new cases.

Neither county had a new death blamed on the virus, according to the Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties website Friday. Menominee County also had five probable virus cases and Delta County four probables since Wednesday.

The PHDM on Friday had Delta County at 7,836 confirmed positives, 2,040 probable cases and 153 deaths since the pandemic began. Menominee County has had 3,855 confirmed positives, 1,687 probables and 63 deaths. The deaths included confirmed and probable.

On the state level, figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Friday indicated 89 new confirmed positives in the Upper Peninsula since Wednesday: 34 in Marquette County; 13 in Houghton County; eight in Delta, Menominee and Chippewa counties; four in Schoolcraft County; three in Dickinson and Gogebic counties; two in Alger and Baraga counties; and one each in Iron, Luce, Mackinac and Keweenaw counties. The state also listed no additional virus-related deaths for the region.

Using only the MDHHS numbers, the Upper Peninsula as of Friday has had 50,596 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 795 deaths.

Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Friday had Keweenaw County at 451 confirmed cases and 53 probable, and 12 confirmed deaths and one probable death; Luce County, 646 confirmed cases and 757 probable, eight confirmed deaths and one probable death; Ontonagon County, 862 confirmed, 104 probable and 34 deaths, two probable; Alger County, 1,028 confirmed, 658 probable and eight deaths, five probable; Schoolcraft County, 1,074 confirmed cases and 668 probable, 11 deaths and two probable; Mackinac County, 1,516 confirmed cases and 836 probable, 26 deaths and two probable; Baraga County, 1,696 confirmed cases, 316 probable and 51 deaths, two probable; Iron County, 2,285 confirmed cases and 337 probable, 69 deaths and 14 probable; Gogebic County, 2,704 confirmed cases and 523 probable, 38 deaths and 29 probable; Chippewa County, 3,312 confirmed cases and 4,996 probable, and 78 deaths, 16 probable; Menominee County, 3,850 confirmed cases, 1,684 probable and 60 deaths, nine probable; Dickinson County, 4,962 confirmed cases and 2,376 probable, 85 deaths and 21 probable; Houghton County, 6,608 confirmed cases, 1,076 probable, 77 deaths and 11 probable; Delta County, 7,828 confirmed cases and 2,033 probable, 129 deaths and 24 probable; and Marquette County, 11,774 confirmed cases, 3,014 probable and 109 deaths, 10 probable. State figures can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

The MDHHS on Friday had 3,120 new confirmed coronavirus positives in Michigan since Wednesday, or an average of about 1,560 per day for the two-day period, for a total to date of 2,054,891. The state since Wednesday added 96 deaths attributed to the virus — including 54 that occurred earlier but were recently verified through a vital records review — to reach 31,791.

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