COVID-19 activity continued to rise in the past week in Dickinson County, which also had a new death attributed to the virus, according to local health data.

Dickinson County had 52 new confirmed positives since Nov. 10, ten more cases than the previous week, according to figures posted Thursday on the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department’s Facebook page. Iron County had nine new confirmed cases, six fewer than the week before.

Dickinson County had 46 probable cases for the seven-day span, Iron County one probable. The DIDHD reclassified 21 people in Dickinson County and 15 in Iron County as recovered from the virus.

The DIDHD on Thursday had Dickinson County at 5,969 confirmed positives and 3,056 probable cases to date, with 8,593 recovered, 121 deaths and 311 cases still active. For Iron County, the agency had 3,002 confirmed cases to date and 415 probables, with 3,245 recovered, 98 deaths and 74 active cases.

State COVID-19 data Tuesday showed Dickinson County led all 15 Upper Peninsula counties in the number of new confirmed cases. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Tuesday added 225 confirmed positives since Nov. 9 to the Upper Peninsula’s tally: 46 in Dickinson County, 43 in Delta County, 28 in Houghton County, 25 in Menominee County, 17 in Marquette and Gogebic counties, 13 in Ontonagon County, 10 in Iron and Baraga counties, six in Alger County, four in Schoolcraft and Chippewa counties and one in Luce and Mackinac counties.

The state recorded no virus-related death in the Upper Peninsula for the week.

Using only the MDHHS figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Tuesday has had 61,077 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 933 deaths since pandemic tracking began in March 2020.

Across the U.P., the MDHHS data site Tuesday had Keweenaw County at 571 confirmed cases and 67 probable, and 14 confirmed deaths and one probable death; Luce County, 762 confirmed cases and 869 probable, 16 confirmed deaths and three probable deaths; Ontonagon County, 1,143 confirmed, 135 probable and 40 deaths, three probable; Alger County, 1,249 confirmed, 810 probable and eight deaths, nine probable; Schoolcraft County, 1,296 confirmed cases and 809 probable, 14 deaths and four probable; Mackinac County, 1,922 confirmed cases and 967 probable, 32 deaths and four probable; Baraga County, 2,029 confirmed cases, 434 probable and 56 deaths, two probable; Iron County, 2,989 confirmed cases and 395 probable, 82 deaths and 17 probable; Gogebic County, 3,421 confirmed cases and 645 probable, 43 deaths and 31 probable; Chippewa County, 4,049 confirmed cases and 5,918 probable, and 95 deaths, 18 probable; Menominee County, 4,601 confirmed cases, 2,101 probable and 64 deaths, 13 probable; Dickinson County, 5,927 confirmed cases and 3,021 probable, 95 deaths and 24 probable; Houghton County, 8,013 confirmed cases, 1,229 probable, 92 deaths and 12 probable; Delta County, 8,819 confirmed cases and 3,061 probable, 140 deaths and 30 probable; and Marquette County, 14,286 confirmed cases, 3,939 probable and 142 deaths, 16 probable. State figures can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

The MDHHS on Tuesday had 12,860 new confirmed and probable coronavirus positives in Michigan since Nov. 9, or an average of about 1,837 cases per day for the six-day period, for a total of 2,920,679 cases since COVID tracking began. The state since Nov. 9 added 123 confirmed and probable deaths attributed to the virus to reach 39,697.

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

For the five Wisconsin counties in the region, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Thursday had Marinette County at 13,770 COVID-19 positives so far, up 50 since Nov. 11, and 142 deaths; Vilas County, 6,221 positives, up 12, and 100 deaths; Forest County, 3,224 positives, up 10, and 52 deaths; Iron County, 1,697 positives, up two, and 49 deaths; and Florence County, 1,284 positives, up seven, and 17 deaths.