Local and Regional COVID Numbers.
Written by Jesse Baroka on October 8, 2020
GOGEBIC / IRON COUNTY – The Michigan Department of Health is reporting 166 cases of COVID19 in Gogebic County no increase since yesterday. Ontonagon County with 45 unchanged since yesterday. While the Wisconsin Department of Health reports 149 cases in Iron County no increase since yesterday. Upper Michigan added 89 coronavirus cases Wednesday, and two new deaths. As of last night there have been a total of 3,017 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Upper Peninsula during this outbreak. Of those, at least 1,244 are considered recovered and 46 have resulted in death. COVID-19 hospitalizations, out of the 10 U.P. hospitals and health systems reporting, show 41 COVID-19 patients in Upper Michigan as of Monday, Oct. 5. Ten of those patients are in the ICU. Aspirus hospitals have two hospitalized patients, with none in the ICU. Out of the 111,638 diagnostic test results reported to the state from Upper Michigan for the entire coronavirus pandemic, 2.29 percent have come back positive for COVID-19.
