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COVID-19 cases hold steady in UP, region

No new COVID-19 cases were listed Tuesday for the Upper Peninsula, with the tally remaining at 98 positive and 15 deaths, according to state health data.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ online site Tuesday had 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; Menominee and Mackinac counties with six 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.

The MDHHS reported 469 confirmed new COVID-19 cases in the state Tuesday for a total of 48,021 to date. Michigan had 90 new deaths — which included 19 deaths that happened earlier but were confirmed through vital records and testing — for 4,674 to date.

Dickinson County Healthcare System on Tuesday 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 341 people for COVID-19, with eight positive, 295 negative and 38 results still pending. DCHS noted there are several additional sources of testing in Dickinson County. The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department records and reports the results of the county-wide data.

Wisconsin counties in the region also had no changes in their figures Tuesday. The state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site listed Marinette County with 21 cases and one death; Forest and Vilas counties each with four cases; Florence County with two cases; and Iron County, two cases and a death.

Statewide, Wisconsin had recorded 10,611 cases of COVID-19 and 418 deaths as of Tuesday afternoon.

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