State lists new COVID-19 case in Menominee County
The state posted two new COVID-19 cases in the Upper Peninsula on Monday, even as it took back a fourth positive report for Dickinson County.
According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Menominee County has a sixth case and Gogebic County a fifth positive.
The state Monday did reduce Dickinson County’s total back to three COVID-19 cases; the Dickinson Iron District Health Department earlier had posted on its Facebook page “the latest positive COVID-19 for Dickinson County was reported in error by MDHHS.”
A software issue kept the MDHHS from providing its regular update on statewide COVID-19 data Monday afternoon. New numbers were placed on the site by late evening, but the MDHHS noted, “as the data backlog is still processing from a software issue, today’s numbers are not representative of the full data set since the May 3 report.”
With the adjustments, the state numbers for the Upper Peninsula as of Monday indicated 94 positive virus cases, 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; Gogebic County five cases and a death; Menominee and Mackinac counties six cases; Delta County 13 cases and two deaths; and Marquette County eight deaths among its 50 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 196 confirmed new COVID-19 cases in the state Monday for a total of 43,950 to date. The state had 86 new deaths for 4,135 to date. Again, the MDHHS noted the software issue caused a data backlog, so may not represent all of the changes in the past day.
Dickinson County Healthcare System on Monday 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 244 people for COVID-19, with seven positive, 220 negative and 17 results still pending.
For Wisconsin counties in the region, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site had no changes Monday: 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.
Statewide, Wisconsin had recorded 8,236 cases of COVID-19 and 340 deaths as of Monday afternoon.