Local and Regional COVID-19 Cases

GOGEBIC / IRON COUNTY –The Michigan Department of Health is reporting 290 cases of COVID19 in Gogebic County that’s an increase of 5 since yesterday.  Ontonagon County with 91 an increase of 2 since yesterday. While the Wisconsin Department of Health reports 191 cases in Iron County an increase of 1 since yesterday.  As last night, there have been a total of 5,459 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Upper Peninsula during this outbreak. Of those, at least 2,638 are considered recovered and 107 have resulted in death. The seven-day average for positive tests in the U.P. sits at 6.8%.  Upper Michigan added 179 coronavirus cases Wednesday.  Out of the 143,938 diagnostic test results reported to the state from Upper Michigan for the entire coronavirus pandemic, 3.20 percent have come back positive for COVID-19 as of Tuesday.