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Second COVID-19 death in Marinette County

Marinette County has had its second COVID-19 death, according to Wisconsin health data.

No additional information was provided on the new death.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 site Thursday 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.

Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wis., also added a new COVID-19 case Thursday, an employee who last worked May 6. It had a second and third positive as well Tuesday and Wednesday at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay in Door County.

In all, the company now has reported eight cases at its Marinette facility since the first was confirmed April 23, along with three at the Sturgeon Bay site since last Friday.

No other information has been provided for the origins of the other Marinette County cases.

Statewide, Wisconsin had recorded 11,275 cases of COVID-19 and 434 deaths as of Thursday afternoon.

In the Upper Peninsula, Michigan health officials Thursday listed one new COVID-19 case in Menominee County, which borders Marinette County. The tally Thursday afternoon stood at 99 positive and 15 deaths.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ online site Thursday 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 seven 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 1,191 confirmed new COVID-19 cases in the state Thursday for a total of 49,582 to date. Michigan had 73 new deaths — which included 35 deaths that happened earlier but were confirmed through vital records and testing — for 4,787 to date.

Dickinson County Healthcare System on Thursday 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 382 people for COVID-19, with eight positive, 355 negative and 19 results still pending. DCHS noted there are several additional sources of testing in Dickinson County.

The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department today listed 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.

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