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State reports two more virus deaths in Dickinson County

The state’s COVID-19 data site Saturday indicated two new deaths in Dickinson County but that could not be confirmed through local health officials.

The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department did not update its figures over the weekend — it normally does not, as is the practice for most regional health agencies — so its numbers did not reflect any new deaths since the last post on Friday.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 data site Saturday also had a questionable increase for Marquette County, raising its total number of confirmed positives by 253.

Excluding the Marquette County figure, the MDHHS on Saturday had 29 new cases in Dickinson County, 16 in Delta County, 13 in Menominee County, 10 in Iron County, nine in Alger County, six in Gogebic and Houghton counties, five in Ontonagon County, three in Chippewa and Mackinac counties and one in Baraga and Schoolcraft counties. The state also reduced Keweenaw County’s total by one. Along with the new deaths in Dickinson County, the state added one fatal case in Delta County. In the eastern Upper Peninsula, the LMAS — Luce, Mackinac, Alger and Schoolcraft counties — District Health Department posted on Facebook its first COVID-19-related death, an older male admitted to UP Health Systems-Marquette on Thursday.

In total for the Upper Peninsula, the MDHHS on Saturday had Keweenaw County with 15 confirmed cases and two probable; Luce County, 28 confirmed cases and nine probable; Schoolcraft County, 50 confirmed cases and four probable; Baraga County, 54 confirmed cases, 12 probable and four deaths; Alger County, 69 confirmed and 19 probable; Ontonagon County, 65 confirmed and four probable; Chippewa County, 64 confirmed cases and 40 probable; Mackinac County, 108 confirmed cases and 29 probable; Gogebic County, 200 confirmed cases, 64 probable and one confirmed death and one probable death; Iron County, 318 confirmed cases, 18 probable and 17 deaths; Dickinson County, 434 confirmed cases, 10 probable and seven confirmed deaths, one probable death; Menominee County, 519 confirmed cases, 74 probable and three deaths; Marquette County, 596 (Friday) confirmed cases, 107 probable and 12 deaths; Houghton County, 698 confirmed cases, 148 probable and six deaths; and Delta County, 842 confirmed cases, 116 probable and 17 deaths. State numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

Using only the state figures posted Saturday but excluding the Marquette County number, the Upper Peninsula has had at least 4,060 confirmed COVID-19 cases to date and 67 deaths.

The MDHHS reported 1,791 confirmed new COVID-19 cases in Michigan on Saturday for a total of 144,897 to date. The state added 23 new deaths Saturday — including 15 that happened earlier but recently were verified through vital records and testing, according to the MDHHS — for a total of 7,010.

The MDHHS does not update its data site on Sundays.

In Wisconsin, the state Department of Health Services did not update its COVID-19 figures over the weekend as it does routine maintenance on its Wisconsin Electronic Disease Surveillance System.

For Wisconsin counties in the region, the DHS on Friday had Marinette County with 1,379 confirmed cases, 86 probable cases and nine deaths; Vilas County, 397 confirmed, 20 probable and three deaths; Forest County, 392 confirmed, seven probable and 10 deaths; Iron County, 159 confirmed, 16 probable and one death; and Florence County, 149 confirmed, four probable and four deaths. As with the Michigan data, the state numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

Wisconsin had 3,861 new positives in the state Friday — another new one-day record for the state, for the second straight day and third day this week — for a total of 166,186, according to the DHS data site. The state added 38 new COVID-19 deaths Friday to reach 1,536 and continued its record-setting pace for hospitalizations, hitting a new high of 1,101 patients.

According to the DIDHD, Dickinson County added 39 new COVID-19 positives Friday, while Iron County had eight more cases. The agency Friday showed 418 residents confirmed so far to have COVID-19 plus 17 probables in Dickinson County, with 105 recovered, five deaths and 325 cases still active. For Iron County, the department had 311 confirmed cases and 19 probables, with 75 recovered, 17 deaths and 238 cases still active.

Dickinson County Healthcare System as of Friday showed 82 positives from Dickinson County and 178 from other counties; those counties are not identified. DCHS has tested 5,087 people for COVID-19, with 260 positive, 4,709 negative and 118 results still pending. DCHS noted there are several additional sources of testing in Dickinson County.

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