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DIDHD: Iron adds eight virus cases in week’s span

Local health officials Thursday indicated a spike in coronavirus activity in Iron County, with eight new confirmed positives in the past week.

The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department had announced Tuesday a potential COVID-19 exposure at the Crystal Theatre in Crystal Falls, after a person who attended a performance Friday later tested positive for the virus. Recent state data reflected a rise in Iron County as well.

In its Facebook post Thursday afternoon, the DIDHD also reported one new confirmed positive, one probable case and eight people considered recovered from the virus in Dickinson County, which now has fewer active COVID-19 cases than Iron. Iron County recorded another probable case since the DIDHD’s last update July 8.

The DIDHD had Iron County at 998 confirmed cases and 72 probables, with 1,008 recovered, 50 deaths and 12 active cases. For Dickinson County, the agency had 2,424 confirmed positives and 347 probable cases, with 2,690 recovered, 72 deaths and nine cases still active.

The DIDHD in June cut back to only one COVID-19 update a week as the pace of local coronavirus activity slowed.

No new Michigan data was available Thursday, as the state Department of Health and Human Services’ coronavirus website now is updated only twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays.

For the five Wisconsin counties in the region, the state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site Thursday showed one new confirmed positive in both Marinette and Forest counties while Vilas County’s count was reduced by one.

The DHS COVID-19 data site Thursday had Marinette County with 4,240 confirmed cases, 477 probable cases and 67 deaths, six probable deaths; Vilas County, 2,297 confirmed, 149 probable and 42 deaths, three probable;

Forest County, 967 confirmed, 81 probable and 24 deaths, three probable; Iron County, 590 confirmed, 120 probable and 21 deaths, 20 probable; and Florence County, 456 confirmed, 55 probable and 13 deaths. As in Michigan, state numbers are updated regularly but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

Wisconsin on Thursday had 356 new positives since Tuesday for a total of 614,413 confirmed COVID-19 cases to date. The state recorded six new deaths in the two days to reach 7,366.

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