State lists five new COVID positives for Dickinson-Iron
Michigan’s COVID-19 data site Friday listed three new positives in Dickinson County and another two in Iron County, though local health officials have not yet reported new cases.
The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department has not updated its totals since Wednesday and was busy Friday with drive-through virus testing in Kingsford. Testing continues today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Forest Park High School in Crystal Falls.
Elsewhere in the Upper Peninsula, the state Department of Health and Human Services’ site showed two new cases in Menominee County and one new in Mackinac County. It also reduced Chippewa County’s count by two.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site Friday had new positives for all five counties in the region: six in Marinette County, five in Forest County, two in Iron County and one each in Florence and Vilas counties. By afternoon, both Forest and Iron counties had posted two additional cases on their Facebook pages to reach 57 and 44, respectively.
Florence County Public Health officials indicated Friday while they did confirm a new positive Thursday, an earlier case attributed to the county is incorrect and its total count is five, not the six listed by the state.
For the Upper Peninsula, the MDHHS data site Friday had Ontonagon and Keweenaw counties with two confirmed virus case each; Luce County three confirmed cases; Alger County three confirmed cases and two probable; Baraga County with five confirmed cases; Schoolcraft County with eight confirmed cases; Iron County 12 confirmed cases and one death; Mackinac County 13 confirmed cases and one probable; Chippewa County 19 confirmed cases and six probable; Houghton County 34 confirmed cases and six probable; Dickinson County 39 confirmed cases, one probable and two deaths; Gogebic County 42 confirmed cases, six probable and a death; Delta County 43 confirmed cases, 13 probable and three deaths; Menominee County 60 confirmed cases and five probable; and Marquette County 103 confirmed cases, seven probable and 11 deaths. State numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.
The MDHHS also earlier separately had prison inmates as positive in Luce and Chippewa counties.
Using strictly the state figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Friday has had 390 confirmed COVID-19 cases with 18 deaths.
The MDHHS reported 594 confirmed new COVID-19 cases in Michigan on Friday for a total of 76,541 to date. The state had three new deaths Friday for 6,151 to date.
Dickinson County Healthcare System as of Friday showed six cases from Dickinson County and 10 cases from other counties; those counties are not identified. DCHS has tested 2,047 people for COVID-19, with 16 positive, 1,947 negative and 84 results still pending. DCHS noted there are several additional sources of testing in Dickinson County.
For Wisconsin counties in the region, the state DHS COVID-19 data site Friday listed Marinette County with 208 cases and three deaths; Forest County with 55 cases and four deaths; Iron County 42 cases and one death; Vilas County 22 cases; and Florence County five cases. As with the Michigan data, the state numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports.
Wisconsin had 1,018 new cases Friday — the third day in the past four the state’s total has risen by more than 1,000 — for a total of 46,917 to date, according to the state DHS data site. The state recorded no new COVID-19 deaths to reach 878 to date.