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State lists new virus death in Marquette County

The state listed no new COVID-19 cases in the Upper Peninsula on Sunday but did add a death in Marquette County.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ online site showed a total of 98 cases in the U.P., including 15 deaths. No further information was available on the additional death in Marquette County.

The MDHHS listed 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 382 confirmed new COVID-19 cases in the state Sunday for a total of 47,138 to date. Michigan had 25 new deaths for 4,551 to date.

Dickinson County Healthcare System on Sunday 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 310 people for COVID-19, with eight positive, 294 negative and eight results still pending. DCHS noted there are several additional sources of testing in Dickinson County and the local Health Department records and reports the results of the county-wide data.

Wisconsin health officials Sunday listed two more people positive for COVID-19 in Forest County, bringing its total to three cases after having none until Wednesday.

For other Wisconsin counties in the region, the state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site Sunday showed Florence County with two cases; Iron County, two cases and a death; Vilas County, four cases; and Marinette County with 16 cases and one death.

Statewide, Wisconsin had recorded 10,219 cases of COVID-19 and 400 deaths as of Sunday afternoon.

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