Iron County has recorded two more deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the past week, even as coronavirus case numbers in the area held steady or declined, local health officials report.

Iron County now has seen seven deaths blamed on the virus in the past five weeks. Dickinson County in that same time period added two deaths.

Iron County had 13 confirmed positives for the week, up one since Sept. 29, and one probable case, according to figures posted Thursday on the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department’s Facebook page.

Dickinson County had only nine new confirmed coronavirus positives, down six from the week before, and six probables for the seven-day span.

The DIDHD reclassified 57 people in Dickinson County and 47 in Iron County as recovered from the virus.

The DIDHD on Thursday had Dickinson County at 5,785 confirmed positives and 2,890 probable cases to date, with 8,342 recovered, 119 deaths and 214 cases still active. For Iron County, the agency had 2,926 confirmed cases to date and 409 probables, with 3,141 recovered, 94 deaths and 100 active cases.

On the state level, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Tuesday added 258 confirmed positives since Sept. 27 to the Upper Peninsula’s tally: 72 in Marquette County, 35 in Gogebic County, 33 in Delta County, 21 in Houghton County, 19 in Menominee County, 15 in Schoolcraft and Chippewa counties, 11 in Iron and Mackinac counties, 10 in Dickinson County, seven in Baraga County, three in Alger and Ontonagon counties, two in Keweenaw and one in Luce County.

New virus-related deaths in the Upper Peninsula for the week included two in Iron and Marquette counties and one in Menominee County.

Using only the MDHHS figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Tuesday has had 59,756 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 916 deaths since pandemic tracking began in March 2020.

Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Tuesday had Keweenaw County at 563 confirmed cases and 67 probable, and 14 confirmed deaths and one probable death; Luce County, 756 confirmed cases and 860 probable, 15 confirmed deaths and two probable deaths; Ontonagon County, 1,089 confirmed, 126 probable and 40 deaths, three probable; Alger County, 1,217 confirmed, 802 probable and eight deaths, seven probable; Schoolcraft County, 1,267 confirmed cases and 795 probable, 14 deaths and four probable; Mackinac County, 1,878 confirmed cases and 956 probable, 31 deaths and four probable; Baraga County, 1,961 confirmed cases, 405 probable and 55 deaths, two probable; Iron County, 2,915 confirmed cases and 390 probable, 78 deaths and 17 probable; Gogebic County, 3,299 confirmed cases and 611 probable, 43 deaths and 31 probable; Chippewa County, 3,978 confirmed cases and 5,810 probable, and 91 deaths, 17 probable; Menominee County, 4,470 confirmed cases, 2,022 probable and 63 deaths, 12 probable; Dickinson County, 5,767 confirmed cases and 2,881 probable, 94 deaths and 24 probable; Houghton County, 7,829 confirmed cases, 1,208 probable, 92 deaths and 12 probable; Delta County, 8,661 confirmed cases and 2,850 probable, 139 deaths and 27 probable; and Marquette County, 14,106 confirmed cases, 3,830 probable and 139 deaths, 14 probable. State figures can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

The MDHHS on Tuesday had 12,880 new confirmed and probable coronavirus positives in Michigan since Sept. 27, or an average of about 1,840 cases per day for the week, for a total of 2,849,047 cases since COVID tracking began. The state for that time period added 143 confirmed and probable deaths attributed to the virus to reach 38,767.

The state updates COVID-19 data once a week, on Tuesdays.

For the five Wisconsin counties in the region, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Thursday had Marinette County at 13,413 COVID-19 positives so far, up 37 since Sept. 29, and 139 deaths, up one; Vilas County, 6,090 positives, up 28, and 100 deaths, up one; Forest County, 3,147 positives, up 11, and 52 deaths; Iron County, 1,666 positives, up 10, and 49 deaths; and Florence County, 1,256 positives, up two, and 17 deaths.