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DIDHD lists three more virus deaths in Iron, one in Dickinson

Local data Thursday showed Dickinson County has had 77 new confirmed COVID-19 positives and a virus-related death in the past seven days, while Iron County had three more deaths and 33 new coronavirus cases.

Dickinson County also has had 46 probable coronavirus positives since Dec. 2 and Iron County nine probables, according to the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department.

Dickinson County in that seven-day period had 106 people reclassified as recovered from the virus, while Iron County had 55 recovered cases, the DIDHD listed in its Facebook post Thursday.

The DIDHD had Dickinson County at 3,522 confirmed positives and 1,320 probable cases to date, with 4,082 recovered, 89 deaths and 671 cases still active. For Iron County, the agency had 1,599 confirmed cases and 193 probables, with 1,462 recovered, 69 deaths and 261 active cases.

The Upper Peninsula as of Thursday had 74 people hospitalized with COVID-19, including 24 adults in intensive care and eight on ventilators, according to Frontline UPdates JIC, a group of health care communication professionals from the U.P.

Statewide Thursday, 4,464 adults were hospitalized with COVID-19 — plus 43 pediatric patients — with 965 adults in ICU beds and 575 on ventilators.

For the five Wisconsin counties in the region, the state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site Thursday had 31 new confirmed positives in Marinette County; 17 in Vilas County; nine in Forest County, along with another virus-related death; four in Florence County; and two in Iron County.

The DHS data site Thursday had Marinette County with 6,989 confirmed cases, 1,389 probable cases and 75 deaths, nine probable deaths; Vilas County, 3,327 confirmed, 187 probable and 59 deaths, four probable; Forest County, 1,662 confirmed, 145 probable and 30 deaths, four probable; Iron County, 807 confirmed, 199 probable and 22 deaths, 21 probable; and Florence County, 602 confirmed, 143 probable and 14 deaths.

Wisconsin data showed 4,123 more positives in the state Thursday for a total of 905,850 confirmed COVID-19 cases to date. The state recorded 61 more virus-related deaths to reach 9,298.

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