The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Friday announced 40,692 new positive coronavirus test results and 123 new COVID-related deaths for Thursday and Friday combined.
These are record-high totals for Michigan.
State officials also checked old death certificates and matched them to previous positive COVID test results. They added 136 deaths to the statewide total.
Here in the Upper Peninsula, there were eight new deaths reported on Friday: two in Houghton County, and one each in Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, Iron, Mackinac, and Menominee Counties.
There were 481 new cases reported in the U.P. over Thursday and Friday, with 73 of them in Delta County, 72 in Chippewa County, and 54 in Marquette County.
As of Friday afternoon, there were 76 people hospitalized with COVID in Upper Peninsula hospitals. There were 21 people in Intensive Care Units and nine people on ventilators. A new report on all of the COVID numbers will be released this afternoon.
NEW U.P. CASES REPORTED FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
Alger 11
Baraga 29
Chippewa 72 (and 1 new death)
Delta 73 (and 1 new death)
Dickinson 41 (and 1 new death)
Gogebic 35
Houghton 77 (and 2 new deaths)
Iron 14 (and 1 new death)
Keweenaw 0
Luce 9
Mackinac 13 (and 1 new death)
Marquette 54
Menominee 21 (and 1 new death)
Ontonagon 24
Schoolcraft 8
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