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ALPENA — Alcona Community Schools officials on Monday notified parents three individuals at Alcona High School were confirmed infected with COVID-19.

Superintendent Dan O’Connor in a letter to parents said those infected included one staff member and two students. District officials are in the process of informing students and staff who are required to quarantine, he said.

O’Connor said in an email to The News Monday the infections are not related to previous infections announced by the district, but they are related to sports, including basketball and bowling. He said the district had to forfeit an upcoming boys basketball district game, which ends the Tigers’ season.

Meanwhile, the district will continue to proceed with its other academic and extracurricular programming.

Parents are asked to continue monitoring their child or children for the onset of symptoms and to keep them home and call their medical provider if there are changes in their health.

Public health officials on Monday reported 35 newly infected or probably infected Northeast Michiganders, including 12 Alpena County residents, 14 Presque Isle County residents, five Montmorency County residents, and four Alcona County residents.

As of Feb. 18, local public health agencies have reported confirmed and suspected infections as one number.

Based on that data, 3,065 Northeast Michiganders have been confirmed or suspected infected since the pandemic hit Michigan in mid-March. Of those, 106 have died.

State data showed that, as of Sunday, 32,274 doses of coronavirus vaccine had been administered in Northeast Michigan.

As of Friday, nobody was hospitalized at MidMichigan Medical Center-Alpena with coronavirus infection, according to state data. The hospital was 45% full.

As of Monday, 61 people — 15 more than on Friday — were hospitalized with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infection across the state-designated, 18-county health care region that includes Alpena, Presque Isle, and Montmorency counties, according to state data.

The last death was reported Friday.

Local public health officials have stopped tracking recoveries.