Menominee reports new COVID case
The only new COVID-19 case reported in the Upper Peninsula on Friday again came in Menominee County for the second straight day.
The additional case raised the U.P.’s total Friday afternoon to 100 positive, including 15 deaths.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ online site Friday showed Luce and Baraga counties with one virus case each; Chippewa and Houghton counties with two cases; Schoolcraft County with four cases; Gogebic County with four 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 51 cases and 10 deaths.
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 not to have at least one positive coronavirus test.
UP Health System – Marquette, the regional referral center for the Upper Peninsula, reported it had no COVID-19 patients being treated as of Thursday morning, according to a UPHS-Marquette spokeswoman.
The MDHHS reported 497 confirmed new COVID-19 cases in the state Friday for a total of 50,079 to date. Michigan had 38 new deaths for 4,825 to date.
Dickinson County Healthcare System on Friday 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 397 people for COVID-19, with eight positive, 355 negative and 34 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, 457 negative tests and 17 tests pending among 479 done so far in Dickinson County; Iron County has no positives, 156 negative tests and 255 pending among 411 administered, according to the DIDHD’s Facebook page.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 site Friday listed Marinette County with 21 cases and two deaths; Forest County with five cases; Vilas County with four cases; Florence County with two cases; and Iron County, two cases and a death.





