ONTONAGON, MI-- Ontonagon County is reporting its first death attributed to COVID-19.
The Western Upper Peninsula Health Department says the elderly resident was a patient at a U.P. hospital at the time of their death.
To date, 26 people have died of the coronavirus within the health department’s five-county jurisdiction.
Officials have also identified a possible COVID-19 exposure site in Ontonagon. Anyone who visited the Citizens State Bank on East River Street October 16 through 28 may be at a higher risk of contracting the virus. Symptoms will typically appear within 2 to 14 days of exposure.
