COVID-19 activity continues to wane locally, with only two new confirmed positives in Dickinson County and one in Iron County in a week’s time, local health officials reported Thursday.

Dickinson County had an additional probable case and 26 people reclassified this week as recovered from the virus since the last update March 17, according to figures posted Thursday morning on the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department’s Facebook page. Iron County had no probable cases and nine recoveries.

The DIDHD on Thursday had Dickinson County at 4,998 confirmed positives and 2,383 probable cases to date, with 7,238 recovered, 109 deaths and 34 cases still active. For Iron County, the agency had 2,311 confirmed cases to date and 340 probables, with 2,544 recovered, 85 deaths and 22 active cases.

On the state level, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Wednesday had 44 new confirmed positives in the Upper Peninsula since Monday: 13 in Chippewa County; eight in Menominee County; seven in Houghton County; five in Marquette County; three in Ontonagon, Keweenaw and Mackinac counties; and one each in Alger and Baraga counties. The only virus-related death came in Mackinac County.

Using only the MDHHS numbers, the Upper Peninsula as of Wednesday has had 51,198 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 819 deaths.

Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Wednesday had Keweenaw County at 454 confirmed cases and 53 probable, and 12 confirmed deaths and one probable death; Luce County, 662 confirmed cases and 761 probable, nine confirmed deaths and one probable death; Ontonagon County, 874 confirmed, 104 probable and 35 deaths, three probable; Alger County, 1,055 confirmed, 657 probable and eight deaths, five probable; Schoolcraft County, 1,083 confirmed cases and 666 probable, 14 deaths and three probable; Mackinac County, 1,547 confirmed cases and 836 probable, 28 deaths and two probable; Baraga County, 1,715 confirmed cases, 318 probable and 51 deaths, two probable; Iron County, 2,306 confirmed cases and 337 probable, 70 deaths and 16 probable; Gogebic County, 2,724 confirmed cases and 521 probable, 39 deaths and 29 probable; Chippewa County, 3,400 confirmed cases and 5,059 probable, and 84 deaths, 17 probable; Menominee County, 3,926 confirmed cases, 1,684 probable and 60 deaths, nine probable; Dickinson County, 4,984 confirmed cases and 2,377 probable, 86 deaths and 22 probable; Houghton County, 6,679 confirmed cases, 1,088 probable, 78 deaths and 11 probable; Delta County, 7,881 confirmed cases and 2,034 probable, 130 deaths and 25 probable; and Marquette County, 11,908 confirmed cases, 3,022 probable and 115 deaths, 11 probable. State figures can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

The MDHHS on Wednesday had 1,558 new confirmed coronavirus positives in Michigan since Monday, or an average of 779 per day for the two-day period, for a total of 2,074,568 cases since COVID tracking began. The state added 95 deaths attributed to the virus — including 86 that occurred earlier but were recently verified through a vital records review — to reach 32,714.

The state issues new COVID-19 data on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

For the five Wisconsin counties in the region, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Thursday had Marinette County at 11,563 COVID-19 positives, up eight since Monday, and 118 deaths, up two; Vilas County, 5,200 positives, up four, and 88 deaths; Forest County, unchanged at 2,667 positives and 51 deaths; Iron County, unchanged at 1,463 positives and 47 deaths; and Florence County, 1,078 positives, up one, and 16 deaths.