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Iron County has second COVID-19 case

Iron County has a second presumptive positive COVID-19 case, area health officials confirmed this morning.

The man with the coronavirus is not related to the first case reported earlier in the week, according to the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department. The department will work to notify those who may have been in close contact, officials stated in a Facebook post.

Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, Forest County again has seen a jump in COVID-19 cases, with four more people testing positive for the virus, health officials said.

Forest County Public Health officials posted the new cases on their Facebook page on Thursday afternoon, bringing the county’s total number of confirmed cases to 33, with two deaths.

All of the latest cases again are linked to the outbreak at The Bay at Nu-Roc care center in Laona, Wis., health officials said.

In the Upper Peninsula, the only new case state officials added Thursday was in Houghton County.

According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services data site Thursday afternoon, Iron and Baraga counties had one virus case; Chippewa County two cases; Luce County three cases; Schoolcraft County four cases; Gogebic County five cases and a death; Dickinson County five cases and two deaths; Houghton County seven cases; Mackinac and Menominee counties eight cases each; Delta County 17 cases and two deaths; and Marquette County 56 cases and 11 deaths. The state did not yet show the new Iron County case.

The MDHHS also has separately listed prison inmates as positive in Luce and Chippewa counties.

The U.P. as of Thursday afternoon had 119 positive cases, including 16 deaths, according to state figures.

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 statewide reported 206 confirmed new COVID-19 cases Thursday for a total of 58,241 to date. The state had 25 new deaths — which included 13 deaths that happened earlier but were confirmed through vital records and testing — for 5,595 to date.

Dickinson County Healthcare System on Thursday continued to show only three 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 659 people for COVID-19, with eight positive, 662 negative and 29 results still pending. DCHS noted there are several additional sources of testing in Dickinson County.

For other Wisconsin counties in the region, the state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site Thursday listed Marinette County with 33 cases and two deaths; Vilas County with eight cases; Florence County with two cases; and Iron County with two cases and a death.

Statewide, Wisconsin on Thursday had recorded 19,892 cases of COVID-19, with 626 deaths.

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