Local and Regional COVID-19 case numbers.

GOGEBIC / IRON COUNTY – A rather large jump in COVID cases in our region since yesterday.  The Michigan Department of Health is reporting 214 cases of COVID19 in Gogebic County that’s an increase of 20 since yesterday.  Ontonagon County with 67 an increase of 7 since Friday. While the Wisconsin Department of Health reports 164 cases in Iron County an increase of 5 since yesterday. Upper Michigan added 253 coronavirus cases Monday, a combined total of cases from Sunday and Monday.  As of last night, there have been a total of 4,314 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Upper Peninsula during this outbreak. Of those, at least 1,852are considered recovered and 70 have resulted in death.  COVID-19 hospitalizations, out of the 10 U.P. hospitals and health systems reporting, show 54 COVID-19 patients in Upper Michigan as of Monday, Oct. 19. Fifteen of those patients are in the intensive care unit (ICU).  Aspirus hospitals have seven patients, with two in the ICU.  Out of the 129,486 diagnostic test results reported to the state from Upper Michigan for the entire coronavirus pandemic, 2.77 percent have come back positive for COVID-19.