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Four new COVID-19 cases in Dickinson

Local health officials posted four new COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County on Sunday, while the data site in Wisconsin this weekend raised the count in neighboring Marinette County by another 20 cases.

The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department reported the new Dickinson cases Sunday afternoon on Facebook, bringing the county’s total to 32. As in the past, no further details were released on the individuals or how they might have contracted the virus.

Across the Upper Peninsula, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ data site this weekend added 13 new positives for Gogebic County; six for Dickinson, two short of what the DIDHD shows; three for Delta County; two for Marquette County; and one each in Menominee, Houghton, Chippewa and Iron counties, with the latter case already reported locally.

In Wisconsin counties in the region, new cases listed by the state COVID-19 data site over the weekend included the 20 new positives in Marinette County to reach 159, three new in Vilas County, two in Iron County and one new in Forest County. The state also reduced Florence County’s number of cases by one, to five total.

For the Upper Peninsula, the MDHHS data site Sunday had Ontonagon County with one confirmed virus case; Keweenaw two confirmed cases; Luce County three confirmed cases; Alger County three confirmed cases and one probable; Baraga County with five confirmed cases; Schoolcraft County with seven confirmed cases; Mackinac County nine confirmed cases; Iron County nine confirmed cases and one death; Chippewa County 20 confirmed cases and four probable; Houghton County 28 confirmed cases and five probable; Dickinson County 30 confirmed cases, three probable and two deaths; Gogebic County 33 confirmed cases, two probable and a death; Delta County 37 confirmed cases, 10 probable and three deaths; Menominee County 51 confirmed cases and four probable; and Marquette County 98 confirmed cases, seven probable and 11 deaths. State numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

The MDHHS also earlier separately had prison inmates as positive in Luce and Chippewa counties.

Using strictly the state figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Sunday has had 338 confirmed COVID-19 cases with 18 deaths.

The MDHHS reported 678 confirmed new COVID-19 cases in Michigan on Saturday and 483 on Sunday for a total of 73,663 to date. The state had nine new deaths — including seven that happened earlier but recently were verified through vital records and testing, according to the MDHHS — on Saturday and two new deaths Sunday for 6,119 to date.

According to the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department, Dickinson County as of Sunday had 32 confirmed COVID-19 positives, with four recovered, two deaths and 26 cases still active. Iron County has nine positives, with three recovered, one death and five still active.

For Wisconsin counties in the region, the state DHS COVID-19 data site Sunday listed Marinette County with 159 cases and three deaths; Forest County with 50 cases and three deaths; Iron County 26 cases and one death; Vilas County 21 cases; and Florence County five cases. As with the Michigan data, the state numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports.

Wisconsin had 978 new cases Saturday and 830 Sunday for a total of 42,315 to date, according to the state DHS data site. The state recorded 10 new COVID-19 deaths Saturday and one Sunday to reach 844 to date.

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