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Only new UP coronavirus case Sunday in Marquette County

Marquette County had the only new COVID-19 case Sunday in the Upper Peninsula, according to Michigan health officials.

The state Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 data site Sunday showed Baraga County with one virus case; Houghton and Chippewa counties with two cases; Luce County with three; Schoolcraft County with four cases; Gogebic County with five cases and a death; Dickinson County with five cases and two deaths; Mackinac County with six cases; Menominee County with eight cases; Delta County with 17 cases and two deaths; and Marquette County with 54 cases and 10 deaths.

The MDHHS also has separately listed prison inmates as positive in Luce and Chippewa counties.

In total, the state as of Sunday afternoon had recorded 109 cases in the Upper Peninsula, including 15 deaths.

Iron, Keweenaw, Alger and Ontonagon counties have yet to report a COVID-19 case in the Upper Peninsula and are the only counties in Michigan not to have at least one positive coronavirus test.

The MDHHS statewide reported 314 confirmed new COVID-19 cases Sunday for a total of 54,679 to date. The state had five new deaths for 5,228 to date.

For Wisconsin counties in the region, the state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 site Sunday listed Marinette County with 31 cases and two deaths; Forest County with 11 cases; Vilas County with six cases; Florence County with two cases; and Iron County, two cases and a death.

Dickinson County Healthcare System on Saturday continued to show only three county residents testing positive at its facilities, with two deaths, along with five positives from other counties; those counties were not identified. DCHS had tested 491 people for COVID-19, with eight positive, 453 negative and 30 results still pending. DCHS noted there are several additional sources of testing in Dickinson County.

The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department on Friday had five positive cases, 545 negative tests and 34 tests pending among 584 done so far in Dickinson County; Iron County has no positives, 419 negative tests and 11 pending among 430 administered, according to the DIDHD’s Facebook page.

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