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State data Tuesday indicated a quiet day for local COVID-19 activity with only one new confirmed positive each reported in Dickinson and Iron counties.
Across the border in Wisconsin, however, that state's COVID-19 data site showed 20 new confirmed positives in Marinette County.
For the Upper Peninsula, the MDHHS on Tuesday had 45 new confirmed positives overall: 16 in Delta County; 13 in Marquette County; four in Houghton County; two in Schoolcraft, Baraga and Mackinac counties; and one each in Dickinson, Menominee, Iron, Chippewa, Luce and Keweenaw counties. Delta and Marquette counties each had a new coronavirus-related death.
Using only the state's figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Tuesday has had 18,910 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 409 deaths.
Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Tuesday had Keweenaw County at 140 confirmed cases and 31 probable, and one confirmed death and one probable death; Luce County, 173 confirmed cases and 174 probable, one confirmed death and one probable death; Schoolcraft County, 290 confirmed cases and 56 probable, four deaths and one probable; Alger County, 307 confirmed, 186 probable and two deaths, four probable; Mackinac County, 386 confirmed cases and 224 probable, three deaths; Ontonagon County, 396 confirmed, 56 probable and 20 deaths, one probable; Baraga County, 556 confirmed cases, 113 probable and 33 deaths; Iron County, 924 confirmed cases and 65 probable, 42 deaths and nine probable; Gogebic County, 1,000 confirmed cases and 360 probable, 22 deaths and 28 probable; Chippewa County, 1,012 confirmed cases and 1,338 probable, and 27 deaths, five probable; Menominee County, 1,728 confirmed cases, 310 probable and 39 deaths, two probable; Dickinson County, 2,341 confirmed cases and 312 probable, 57 deaths and 16 probable; Houghton County, 2,427 confirmed cases, 593 probable, 32 deaths and eight probable; Delta County, 3,165 confirmed cases and 616 probable, 69 deaths and 19 probable; and Marquette County, 4,065 confirmed cases, 775 probable and 57 deaths, one probable. State numbers are updated almost daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.
The MDHHS on Tuesday posted 3,676 confirmed new coronavirus positives in Michigan for a total to date of 829,520. The state Tuesday recorded 105 deaths blamed on the virus -- including 48 that happened earlier but recently were verified through vital records and testing, according to the MDHHS -- to reach 17,429.
For Wisconsin counties in the region, the state Department of Health Services' COVID-19 data site Tuesday had the 20 new confirmed positives in Marinette County, and two each in Iron and Vilas counties.
The DHS on Tuesday had Marinette County with 4,091 confirmed cases, 440 probable cases and 66 deaths, three probable deaths; Vilas County, 2,224 confirmed, 145 probable and 40 deaths, two probable; Forest County, 949 confirmed, 77 probable and 23 deaths, three probable; Iron County, 574 confirmed, 117 probable and 21 deaths, 19 probable; and Florence County, 442 confirmed, 55 probable and 12 deaths. As in Michigan, state numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.
Wisconsin added 815 new positives Tuesday for a total of 595,864 confirmed COVID-19 cases to date. The state listed 17 new deaths Tuesday to reach 6,773.