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Houghton County has third COVID-19 case

Houghton County had the lone new COVID-19 positive listed for the Upper Peninsula on Tuesday, according to state health officials.

For the Upper Peninsula, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 data site Tuesday showed Baraga County with one virus case; Chippewa County with two cases; Houghton and Luce counties with three; 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 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 state as of Tuesday afternoon had 110 positive cases in the Upper Peninsula, 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 223 confirmed new COVID-19 cases Tuesday for a total of 55,104 to date. The state had 26 new deaths for 5,266 to date.

Figures for Wisconsin counties in the region were unchanged Tuesday. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 site Tuesday listed Marinette County with 32 cases, including two deaths; Forest County with 12 cases; Vilas County with six cases; Florence County with two cases; and Iron County with two cases and a death.

Statewide, Wisconsin had recorded 15,863 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday afternoon, with 517 deaths.

Dickinson County Healthcare System on Tuesday 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 529 people for COVID-19, with eight positive, 488 negative and 32 results still pending. DCHS noted there are several additional sources of testing in Dickinson County.

The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department on Friday had five positive cases, 545 negative tests and 34 tests pending among 584 done so far in Dickinson County; Iron County has no positives, 419 negative tests and 11 pending among 430 administered, according to the DIDHD’s Facebook page.

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