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Marinette Marine has two more reports of COVID-19

Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wis., reported two more COVID-19 cases Tuesday, bringing the total outbreak at that site to six.

The shipbuilding facility last week revealed it has quarantined a dozen employees who may have been exposed to the coronavirus after four workers tested positive over the previous two weeks.

Tuesday, the company reported two new positive cases in its Building 32, with those employees last working Friday and Saturday, respectively, according to the company’s website.

Marinette Marine’s first positive COVID-19 test came April 23. That worker hasn’t been at the shipyard since April 17, but the company believed a dozen other employees in Wisconsin and Michigan may have been exposed at that point. Since that time, an additional Marinette Marine employee turned up positive April 27, 28 and 29, along with Tuesday’s two cases.

In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on Tuesday, the state Department of Health and Human Services had 93 COVID-19 cases, including 13 deaths.

The MDHHS’s data site showed Luce and Baraga counties each with one virus case; Chippewa and Houghton counties with two cases; Schoolcraft and Dickinson counties with three cases, including two deaths in Dickinson; Gogebic County with four cases and a death; Menominee and Mackinac counties with six cases; Delta County with 14 cases and two deaths; and Marquette County with eight deaths among its 49 cases.

As it has done in the past few days, MDHHS did alter previous numbers posted for the region, this time reducing Gogebic County’s cases back to four and Marquette County cases by one.

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 447 confirmed new COVID-19 cases in the state Tuesday for a total of 44,397 to date. The state had 44 new deaths — which included eight deaths that happened earlier but were confirmed through vital records and testing — for 4,179 to date.

Dickinson County Healthcare System on Tuesday 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 259 people for COVID-19, with seven positive, 223 negative and 29 results still pending.

For Wisconsin counties in the region, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site had no changes Tuesday: Marinette County had 11 cases with one death; Florence County, two cases; Iron County, two cases and a death; and Vilas County, four cases. Forest County has yet to have a positive case with 86 tested so far.

That site did not show any increase yet for Marinette County as of Tuesday.

Statewide, Wisconsin had recorded 8,566 cases of COVID-19 and 353 deaths as of Tuesday afternoon.

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