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Covid-19

State: UP has 459 new COVID cases in past three days

State data Monday showed 459 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in the Upper Peninsula since Friday, including 34 more cases in Dickinson County and 16 in Iron County. Figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Monday indicated 106 new confirmed ...

DIDHD: Iron has 54 new virus cases, three more deaths

Iron County in the past week recorded 54 new confirmed COVID-19 positives along with three more deaths blamed on the coronavirus, while Dickinson County added 52 cases, local data showed Friday. Dickinson County also has had 88 probable coronavirus cases since Nov. 4 and Iron County eight ...

Whitmer vetoes ban on fining employers for COVID violations

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday vetoed a bill that would prohibit Michigan’s workplace safety agency from fining employers for first-time violations of COVID-19 rules and require reimbursements if they violated her 2020 executive orders that were later declared ...

Madison diocese directs parishes against having vaccine clinics

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Madison Catholic Diocese has instructed its 102 parishes not to host coronavirus vaccination clinics in their schools and churches. The diocese directive follows federal action which recently made children ages 5 to 11 eligible for the pediatric vaccine. Diocese ...

N-V schools to end mask mandate

NORWAY — It took a while, but the Norway-Vulcan Area Schools Board managed to reach a compromise Wednesday on two key provisions of the district’s COVID-19 policy, including lifting a mask mandate for elementary students after the Thanksgiving holiday break. The two unanimous votes ...

State: Iron County has two more virus deaths

State data Wednesday showed two more deaths blamed on COVID-19 in Iron County, which also had 14 new virus positives since Monday. Across the border, Marinette County in Wisconsin has tallied 163 new confirmed coronavirus cases from Monday through Thursday, according to numbers on that ...