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DIDHD: 46 more virus cases, two deaths in Dickinson

Dickinson County in the past week has recorded 46 new confirmed COVID-19 positives along with two more deaths attributed to virus, while Iron County added 39 cases and one death, local data showed Thursday.

Dickinson County also has had 40 probable coronavirus cases since Oct. 28 and Iron County 12 probables, according to the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department.

Dickinson County did reclassify 131 people as recovered from the virus, while Iron County had 29 recovered cases, the DIDHD listed in its Facebook post Thursday afternoon.

The DIDHD had Dickinson County at 3,133 confirmed positives and 984 probable cases to date, with 3,561 recovered, 85 deaths and 471 cases still active. For Iron County, the agency had 1,358 confirmed cases and 132 probables, with 1,240 recovered, 57 deaths and 193 active cases.

The Upper Peninsula as of Thursday had 51 people hospitalized with COVID-19, including 16 adults in intensive care and five on ventilators, according to Frontline UPdates JIC, a group of health care communication professionals from the U.P.

Statewide Thursday, 2,164 adults were hospitalized for COVID-19 — plus 36 pediatric patients — with 559 adults in ICU beds and 294 on ventilators.

State COVID-19 numbers for the Upper Peninsula were not available Thursday, as the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services updates its coronavirus data site on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

For the five Wisconsin counties in the region, the state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site Thursday had 60 confirmed positives in Marinette County in a single day — as well as a new virus-related death — along with 15 new cases in Vilas County and four in Forest County.

The DHS data site Thursday had Marinette County with 6,003 confirmed cases, 1,140 probable cases and 72 deaths, nine probable deaths; Vilas County, 3,004 confirmed, 168 probable and 53 deaths, four probable; Forest County, 1,433 confirmed, 111 probable and 28 deaths, four probable; Iron County, 739 confirmed, 174 probable and 21 deaths, 21 probable; and Florence County, 546 confirmed, 111 probable and 14 deaths.

Wisconsin data Thursday showed 2,943 more positives in the state for a total of 802,117 confirmed COVID-19 cases to date. The state recorded 26 more virus-related deaths to reach 8,580.

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