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Only one new COVID-19 case reported Saturday in UP

Marquette County had the only new COVID-19 case listed Saturday across the Upper Peninsula, according to state health officials.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Saturday listed 93 confirmed positives cases in the U.P., including 13 deaths.

According to the MDHHS, Luce and Baraga counties each have one virus case; Chippewa and Houghton counties two cases; Schoolcraft and Dickinson counties three cases, with two deaths in Dickinson County; Gogebic County four cases and a death; Menominee County five cases; Mackinac County six; Delta County 13 cases and two deaths; and Marquette County eight deaths among its 51 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 not to have at least one positive coronavirus test.

The MDHHS reported 851 new COVID-19 cases in the state Saturday afternoon for a total of 43,207 to date. The state had 154 new deaths — some happened earlier in the outbreak but were added after review of vital records and testing data, the MDHHS explained — for 4,020 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.

For Wisconsin counties in the region, the state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site by county Saturday 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 79 tested so far.

Statewide, Wisconsin had recorded 7,660 cases of COVID-19 and 334 deaths as of Saturday afternoon.

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