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Dickinson schools all reporting virus cases

All four Dickinson County school districts now have had confirmed COVID-19 positives among either students, staff or both.

As of Monday, Breitung Township School District has had 13 staff members and six students — five in Kingsford High School, one in middle school — test positive for the virus since Oct. 10, when the state began requiring school districts post their results on their websites.

Iron Mountain School District has had four students at its fifth- through 12th-grade building as of Thursday, plus two staff at business office and one at the middle-high school level.

Norway-Vulcan Area Schools reported two high school students as positive Monday, but no staff.

The North Dickinson County School District in Felch Township listed two students as positive in the week that ended Friday, along with two staff in the weeks that ended Oct. 16 and Friday.

All Dickinson County public school districts switched in-person classes to virtual learning Oct. 19 through at least this Friday on the recommendation of the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department due to the local surge in COVID-19 cases.

The DIDHD has not yet recommended whether to extend that shutdown or have face-to-face classes resume Monday.

The DIDHD on Tuesday showed nine new COVID-19 cases and one new death in Dickinson County, while Iron County had two new deaths and three new cases.

No additional information was provided on the deaths, as has been the department’s practice to protect families’ privacy.

According to the DIDHD, Dickinson County on Tuesday had 618 confirmed COVID-19 positives and 21 probables, with 183 recovered, 19 deaths and 437 cases still active. For Iron County, the department had 405 confirmed cases and 35 probables, with 223 recovered, 22 deaths and 195 cases still active.

In the Upper Peninsula, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 data site Tuesday listed 110 new positives: 28 in Marquette County; 20 in Delta County; 16 in Menominee County; eight in Dickinson and Houghton counties; six in Chippewa County; five in Baraga and Schoolcraft counties; three in Alger and Luce counties; two in Iron, Gogebic and Ontonagon counties; and one each in

Keweenaw and Mackinac counties.

The state showed a 23rd death in Delta County — Public Health Delta and Menominee Counties shows 26 deaths Tuesday — plus one death each in Iron and Marquette counties.

In total for the U.P., the MDHHS on Tuesday had Keweenaw County with 19 confirmed cases and one probable; Luce County, 39 confirmed cases and 16 probable; Schoolcraft County, 70 confirmed cases and four probable, plus one probable death; Baraga County, 75 confirmed cases, 13 probable and four deaths; Chippewa County, 84 confirmed cases and 63 probable; Alger County, 84 confirmed, 27 probable and one death; Ontonagon County, 89 confirmed and 14 probable; Mackinac County, 124 confirmed cases and 34 probable; Gogebic County, 285 confirmed cases and 119 probable, three confirmed deaths and four probable deaths; Iron County, 408 confirmed cases and 33 probable, 22 confirmed deaths and three probable; Dickinson County, 621 confirmed cases and 15 probable, 19 confirmed deaths and one probable; Menominee County, 636 confirmed cases, 79 probable and five deaths; Houghton County, 777 confirmed cases, 152 probable, eight confirmed deaths and one probable; Marquette County, 904 confirmed cases, 140 probable and 15 deaths; and Delta County, 1,059 confirmed cases and 142 probable, 23 confirmed deaths and three probable. State numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

Using only the state figures Tuesday, the Upper Peninsula has had 5,274 confirmed COVID-19 cases to date and 100 deaths.

The MDHHS reported 2,367 confirmed new COVID-19 cases in Michigan on Tuesday for a total of 164,274 to date. The state added 28 new deaths on Tuesday — including eight that happened earlier but recently were verified through vital records and testing, according to the MDHHS — for a total of 7,239.

For Wisconsin counties in the region, the state’s COVID-19 data site Tuesday had 59 new positives in Marinette County, 15 in Forest County, 12 in Vilas County and six in Iron County. The state recorded two new deaths in Iron County and one in Marinette County. Florence County’s death total was reduced by one, though the county Monday still showed seven deaths.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Tuesday had Marinette County with 1,709 confirmed cases, 114 probable cases and 12 deaths; Vilas County, 555 confirmed, 20 probable and five deaths; Forest County, 464 confirmed, 10 probable and 10 deaths; Florence County, 210 confirmed, 13 probable and six deaths; and Iron County, 190 confirmed, 26 probable and four deaths. As with the Michigan data, the state numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

Wisconsin had 5,262 new positives Tuesday — yet again a new single-day record in the state — for a total of 206,311. The state added 64 new COVID-19 deaths Tuesday — another single-day record — to reach 1,852.

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