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Delta County adds 49 new COVID-19 cases

ESCANABA — Local data Monday showed Delta County added 49 confirmed COVID-19 positives in the past three days while Menominee County had 21 new cases.

Delta County also had 14 probable virus cases and Menominee County four probables since Friday, according to the Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties website Monday. Neither county recorded a death connected to the coronavirus in the three-day period.

The PHDM on Monday had Delta County at 7,668 confirmed positives, 1,987 probable cases and 147 deaths since the pandemic began. Menominee County has had 3,744 confirmed positives, 1,640 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 Monday indicated 322 new confirmed positives in the Upper Peninsula since Friday: 95 in Marquette County, 49 in Delta County, 41 in Chippewa County, 40 in Houghton County, 34 in Dickinson County, 21 in Menominee County, 15 in Iron County, seven in Gogebic County, four in Baraga and Keweenaw counties, three in Luce and Alger counties, and two in Schoolcraft, Ontonagon and Mackinac counties. The state listed one more virus-related death in both Dickinson and Marquette counties.

Using only the MDHHS numbers, the Upper Peninsula as of Monday has had 49,290 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 759 deaths.

Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Monday had Keweenaw County at 442 confirmed cases and 50 probable, and 11 confirmed deaths and one probable death; Luce County, 630 confirmed cases and 730 probable, seven confirmed deaths and one probable death; Ontonagon County, 838 confirmed, 99 probable and 32 deaths, two probable; Alger County, 1,000 confirmed, 647 probable and seven deaths, five probable; Schoolcraft County, 1,036 confirmed cases and 628 probable, 11 deaths and two probable; Mackinac County, 1,466 confirmed cases and 820 probable, 26 deaths and two probable; Baraga County, 1,656 confirmed cases, 312 probable and 50 deaths, two probable; Iron County, 2,230 confirmed cases and 324 probable, 66 deaths and 13 probable; Gogebic County, 2,648 confirmed cases and 514 probable, 36 deaths and 29 probable; Chippewa County, 3,187 confirmed cases and 4,792 probable, and 72 deaths, 14 probable; Menominee County, 3,735 confirmed cases, 1,634 probable and 59 deaths, nine probable; Dickinson County, 4,862 confirmed cases and 2,315 probable, 82 deaths and 19 probable; Houghton County, 6,487 confirmed cases, 1,055 probable, 73 deaths and 11 probable; Delta County, 7,655 confirmed cases and 1,970 probable, 123 deaths and 25 probable; and Marquette County, 11,418 confirmed cases, 2,939 probable and 104 deaths, eight probable. State figures can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

The MDHHS on Monday had 9,898 new confirmed coronavirus positives in Michigan since Friday, or an average of about 3,299 per day for the three-day period, for a total to date of 2,019,119. The state since Friday added 38 deaths attributed to the virus to reach 30,417.

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

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