ESCANABA — Area COVID-19 activity has slowed to the point that Delta County recorded no new confirmed positives since Wednesday and Menominee County only one case, according to local virus data.

The probable case count also went down by four in Menominee County and two in Delta County over the two-day period, according to figures posted on the Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties website Friday.

The PHDM on Friday had Delta County at 7,895 confirmed positives, 2,036 probable cases and 155 deaths since the pandemic began. Menominee County has had 3,946 confirmed positives, 1,685 probables and 64 deaths. The deaths included confirmed and probable.

On the state level, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Friday added 17 confirmed positives to the Upper Peninsula’s tally since Wednesday: seven in Mackinac County; three in Marquette County; two in Menominee and Ontonagon counties; and one each in Schoolcraft, Dickinson, Iron, Chippewa, Keweenaw and Gogebic counties; Houghton County’s count was reduced by two, Luce County’s by one. The state had a death blamed on the virus in Marquette County.

Using only the MDHHS figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Friday has had 51,305 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 828 deaths.

Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Friday had Keweenaw County at 458 confirmed cases and 54 probable, and 12 confirmed deaths and one probable death; Luce County, 661 confirmed cases and 763 probable, 10 confirmed deaths and one probable death; Ontonagon County, 879 confirmed, 104 probable and 35 deaths, three probable; Alger County, 1,056 confirmed, 659 probable and eight deaths, five probable; Schoolcraft County, 1,084 confirmed cases and 666 probable, 14 deaths and three probable; Mackinac County, 1,560 confirmed cases and 840 probable, 28 deaths and two probable; Baraga County, 1,720 confirmed cases, 317 probable and 51 deaths, two probable; Iron County, 2,310 confirmed cases and 334 probable, 71 deaths and 16 probable; Gogebic County, 2,730 confirmed cases and 521 probable, 40 deaths and 29 probable; Chippewa County, 3,412 confirmed cases and 5,067 probable, and 86 deaths, 17 probable; Menominee County, 3,941 confirmed cases, 1,681 probable and 60 deaths, 10 probable; Dickinson County, 4,985 confirmed cases and 2,377 probable, 86 deaths and 22 probable; Houghton County, 6,703 confirmed cases, 1,089 probable, 79 deaths and 11 probable; Delta County, 7,888 confirmed cases and 2,029 probable, 131 deaths and 24 probable; and Marquette County, 11,918 confirmed cases, 3,023 probable and 117 deaths, 10 probable. State figures can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

The MDHHS on Friday had 1,661 new confirmed coronavirus positives in Michigan since Wednesday, or an average of about 831 per day for the two-day period, for a total of 2,080,612 cases since COVID tracking began. The state for that period added 33 deaths attributed to the virus — including 27 that occurred earlier but were recently verified through a vital records review — to reach 32,863.

The state for months has updated COVID-19 data on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays but starting next week will switch to Wednesdays only, include both confirmed and probable cases and deaths, and end adding deaths via vital records review.