COVID-19 infections rise slightly
ESCANABA — Local data Wednesday showed COVID-19 activity rising slightly in the area in the past seven days, with Delta County recording 32 and Menominee County 30 new confirmed positives.
Delta County also had 31 probable coronavirus positives and Menominee County 20 since Aug. 10, according to figures posted on the Public Health of Delta and Menominee Counties website Wednesday. Neither county reported a new virus-related death.
The PHDM website Wednesday had Delta County at 8,485 confirmed positives, 2,555 probable cases and 163 deaths since the pandemic began. Menominee County has had 4,326 confirmed positives, 1,930 probables and 68 deaths. The deaths included confirmed and probable.
On the state level, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Tuesday added 476 confirmed positives since Aug. 9 to the Upper Peninsula’s tally: 114 in Marquette County, 58 in Houghton County, 49 in Iron County, 48 in Dickinson County, 38 in Delta and Menominee counties, 27 in Chippewa County, 22 in Gogebic County, 16 in Baraga County, 15 in Schoolcraft and Mackinac counties, 14 in Alger County, 11 in Ontonagon County, six in Luce County and five in Keweenaw County. The state listed new virus-related deaths in Dickinson and Baraga counties.
Using only the MDHHS figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Tuesday has had 57,695 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 884 deaths.
Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Tuesday had Keweenaw County at 544 confirmed cases and 61 probable, and 12 confirmed deaths and one probable death; Luce County, 721 confirmed cases and 850 probable, 14 confirmed deaths and two probable deaths; Ontonagon County, 1,040 confirmed, 118 probable and 37 deaths, three probable; Alger County, 1,170 confirmed, 749 probable and eight deaths, seven probable; Schoolcraft County, 1,198 confirmed cases and 778 probable, 13 deaths and three probable; Mackinac County, 1,807 confirmed cases and 927 probable, 28 deaths and four probable; Baraga County, 1,923 confirmed cases, 379 probable and 54 deaths, two probable; Iron County, 2,664 confirmed cases and 365 probable, 71 deaths and 17 probable; Gogebic County, 3,181 confirmed cases and 590 probable, 42 deaths and 31 probable; Chippewa County, 3,843 confirmed cases and 5,552 probable, and 91 deaths, 17 probable; Menominee County, 4,311 confirmed cases, 1,909 probable and 62 deaths, 12 probable; Dickinson County, 5,506 confirmed cases and 2,700 probable, 93 deaths and 23 probable; Houghton County, 7,609 confirmed cases, 1,185 probable, 91 deaths and 12 probable; Delta County, 8,466 confirmed cases and 2,535 probable, 137 deaths and 27 probable; and Marquette County, 13,712 confirmed cases, 3,607 probable and 131 deaths, 11 probable. State figures can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.
The MDHHS on Tuesday had 23,165 new confirmed and probable coronavirus positives in Michigan since Aug. 9, or an average of about 3,309 cases per day for the week, for a total of 2,731,787 cases since COVID tracking began. The state for that time period added 103 confirmed and probable deaths attributed to the virus to reach 37,774.
The state updates COVID-19 data once a week, on Tuesdays.






