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Four new COVID-19 cases reported in Marquette County

Marquette County reported four new COVID-19 cases Friday, pushing the total for the Upper Peninsula past 90, according to state health officials.

In Wisconsin, meanwhile, the number of positive cases in Marinette County continues to grow, with two more positives posted on the state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site Friday. That raises its total to 10, with one death recorded.

Marinette, Wis.-based Fincantieri Marinette Marine earlier this week revealed it has quarantined a dozen employees who may have been exposed to the coronavirus after four workers tested positive over the past two weeks.

The Marinette-based company announced its first worker who tested positive April 23. That worker hadn’t been at the shipyard since April 17 but the company believes a dozen other employees in Wisconsin and Michigan may have been exposed. Since that time, a single employee has turned up positive Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week; the Tuesday case had been at the facility as recently as April 24, only a week ago.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Friday listed 92 confirmed positives cases in the U.P., including 13 deaths.

Luce and Baraga counties each had one virus case; Chippewa and Houghton counties with two cases; Schoolcraft and Dickinson counties with three cases and two deaths in Dickinson County; Gogebic County with four cases and a death; Menominee County with five cases; Mackinac County with six; Delta County with 13 cases and two deaths; and Marquette County with eight deaths among its 50 cases.

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

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 to not have at least one positive coronavirus test.

The MDHHS reported 977 new COVID-19 cases in the state Friday afternoon, with a total of 42,356 to date. The state had 77 new deaths for a total of 3,866 to date.

Dickinson County Healthcare System on Friday continued to list two 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 228 people for COVID-19, with seven positive, 186 negative and 35 results still pending.

In Wisconsin counties in the region, the state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site by county showed 10 positive cases and a death in Marinette County; two positives in Florence County; two cases and a death in Wisconsin’s Iron County; and four cases in Vilas County. Forest County has yet to have a positive case with 73 tested so far.

Statewide, Wisconsin had recorded 7,314 cases of COVID-19 and 327 deaths as of Thursday afternoon.

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