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Forest County COVID cases continue to climb

The only new COVID-19 cases health officials reported in the region Friday both came in Wisconsin’s Forest County.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site Friday listed 28 people testing positive for the virus in Forest County, up two from what the state listed for the county Thursday, but only one more than the county had posted a day earlier.

All but one case appears connected in some way to the public health investigation at The Bay at Nu-Roc Health and Rehabilitation Center in Laona, Wis., the Forest County Health Department stated on social media and its website. Officials also had confirmed last weekend that a person had died from virus complications.

For other Wisconsin counties in the region, the state DHS listed Marinette County with 33 cases, including two deaths; Forest County with 28 cases and one death; Vilas County with six cases; Florence County with two cases; and Iron County with two cases and a death.

Statewide, Wisconsin had recorded 17,707 cases of COVID-19 as of Friday afternoon, with 568 deaths.

Figures were unchanged for new COVID-19 cases in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. According to the state Department of Health and Human Services’ data site Friday, Baraga County had one virus case; Chippewa County two cases; Luce County three cases;

Schoolcraft County four cases; Houghton County five cases; Gogebic County five cases and a death; Dickinson County five cases and two deaths; Mackinac and Menominee counties eight cases each; Delta County 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.

The U.P. as of Friday afternoon had 114 positive cases, including 15 deaths, according to state figures.

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 607 confirmed new COVID-19 cases Friday for a total of 56,621 to date. The state had 34 new deaths for 5,406 to date.

Dickinson County Healthcare System on Thursday 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 559 people for COVID-19, with eight positive, 523 negative and 28 results still pending. DCHS noted there are several additional sources of testing in Dickinson County.

The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department on Friday posted it continued to have five positive cases, with two deaths, two recovered and one “active.” The DIDHD had been listing total numbers tested in both counties but did not Friday.

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