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COVID-19 cases hold steady in the UP Monday

The number of COVID-19 cases was unchanged Monday in the Upper Peninsula, while the only new positive for the Wisconsin side of the region came in Marinette County.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 data site Monday showed Baraga County with one virus case; Houghton, Luce and Chippewa counties with two cases; 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 14 cases and two deaths; and Marquette County with 52 cases and 10 deaths.

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

The tally Monday afternoon kept the U.P.’s total at 103 positive, 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 773 confirmed new COVID-19 cases Monday — 513 of the cases were attributed to enhanced testing in Michigan Department of Corrections facilities — for a total of 51,915 to date. The state had 24 new deaths for 4,915 to date.

For Wisconsin counties in the region, the state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 site Monday listed Marinette County with 25 cases and two deaths; Forest County with nine cases; Vilas County with four cases; Florence County with two cases; and Iron County, two cases and a death.

Statewide, Wisconsin had recorded 12,687 cases of COVID-19 as of Monday afternoon, but only six new deaths to bring that total to 459.

Dickinson County Healthcare System on Monday still listed three county residents testing positive at its facilities thus far, with two deaths, along with five positives from other counties; those counties were not identified. DCHS had tested 420 people for COVID-19, with eight positive, 394 negative and 18 results still pending. DCHS noted there are several additional sources of testing in Dickinson County.

The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department for Monday had five positive cases, 507 negative tests and 11 tests pending among 523 done so far in Dickinson County; Iron County has no positives, 403 negative tests and 14 pending among 417 administered, according to the DIDHD’s Facebook page.

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