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Dickinson County reports 15th case of COVID-19

Dickinson County on Tuesday afternoon recorded its 15th COVID-19 positive, local health officials announced.

The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department posted the new case on its Facebook page Tuesday afternoon but provided no other details.

According to the DIDHD, of Dickinson County’s 15 positives, two have died, four recovered and nine are still active cases; Iron County has had six cases, with one death, two recovered and three still active.

Elsewhere in the Upper Peninsula, the state Tuesday listed seven new positives in Marquette County and one new case each in Chippewa, Dickinson and Menominee counties; the state did not yet have the latest Dickinson case.

For Wisconsin counties in the region, state health officials Tuesday listed Marinette County with two new positives, Vilas County with three new and Forest County with a new case.

For the Upper Peninsula, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ data site Tuesday recorded Keweenaw and Ontonagon counties with one confirmed virus case; Luce County with three confirmed cases; Alger County three confirmed cases and one probable; Baraga County with five confirmed cases; Schoolcraft County with six confirmed cases; Iron County six confirmed cases and one death; Mackinac County nine confirmed cases; Gogebic County 10 confirmed cases, one probable and a death; Chippewa County 13 confirmed cases and one probable; Dickinson County 14 confirmed cases, one probable and two deaths; Houghton County 19 confirmed cases and one probable; Delta County 23 confirmed cases, four probable and three deaths; Menominee County 24 confirmed cases and one probable; and Marquette County 82 confirmed cases, one probable and 11 deaths. State numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports.

The MDHHS also earlier separately had prison inmates as positive in Luce and Chippewa counties.

Using state figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Tuesday had 221 confirmed positives and 18 deaths.

The MDHHS reported 454 confirmed new COVID-19 cases in Michigan on Tuesday for a total of 66,627 to date. The state had 30 new deaths — which included 20 deaths that happened earlier but were confirmed through vital records and testing — for 6,005 to date.

Dickinson County Healthcare System on Monday showed four cases from Dickinson County and eight cases from other counties; those counties are not identified. DCHS has tested 1,338 people for COVID-19, with 12 positive, 1,283 negative and 42 results still pending. DCHS noted there are several additional sources of testing in Dickinson County.

For the Wisconsin counties in the region, the state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site Tuesday listed Marinette County with 71 cases and three deaths; Forest County 40 cases and three deaths; Vilas County 14 cases; Iron County eight cases and a death; and Florence County four cases. As with the Michigan data, the state numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports.

Wisconsin on Tuesday had 495 new cases for a total of 32,556 to date. The state had nine new COVID-19 deaths to reach 805, according to the DHS data site.

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