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State lists 18 more virus cases in Marinette County

Marinette County has reached 177 cases of COVID-19, with the Wisconsin data site adding 18 new positives for the county Monday.

This one-day jump comes after the state recorded another 20 cases for Marinette County over the weekend.

Forest County, also in Wisconsin, confirmed a fourth death due to COVID-19 complications on its Facebook page Monday afternoon.

Locally, health officials reported two new cases in Dickinson County and another in Iron County.

Elsewhere in the Upper Peninsula, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 data site listed two new positives in Delta County and one new case each in Menominee, Marquette, Gogebic, Chippewa and Mackinac counties, as well as the new Iron County case.

Along with the Marinette cases, Wisconsin health officials added two new cases in Iron County to reach 28; that county Monday afternoon then posted a 29th case on its Facebook page.

For the Upper Peninsula, the MDHHS data site Monday 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 10 confirmed cases; Iron County 10 confirmed cases and one death; Chippewa County 21 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 34 confirmed cases, three probable and a death; Delta County 39 confirmed cases, 11 probable and three deaths; Menominee County 52 confirmed cases and four probable; and Marquette County 99 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 Monday has had 346 confirmed COVID-19 cases with 18 deaths.

The MDHHS reported 489 confirmed new COVID-19 cases in Michigan on Monday for a total of 74,152 to date. The state had seven new deaths Monday for 6,126 to date.

According to the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department, Dickinson County as of Monday had 34 confirmed COVID-19 positives, with four recovered, two deaths and 28 cases still active. Iron County has 10 positives, with three recovered, one death and six still active.

Dickinson County Healthcare System as of Sunday showed six cases from Dickinson County and nine cases from other counties; those counties are not identified. DCHS has tested 1,887 people for COVID-19, with 15 positive, 1,837 negative and 35 results still pending. DCHS noted there are several additional sources of testing in Dickinson County.

For Wisconsin counties in the region, the state DHS COVID-19 data site Monday listed Marinette County with 177 cases and three deaths; Forest County with 50 cases and three deaths; Iron County 28 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 703 new cases Monday for a total of 43,018 to date, according to the state DHS data site. The state recorded two new COVID-19 deaths to reach 844 to date.

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