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ALPENA — Another 20 Northeast Michiganders tested positive for the coronavirus, while providers administered 358 more COVID-19 vaccine doses in the region, health officials reported Thursday.

New case numbers have been in the double digits since Friday after a month of averaging six new cases per day, according to state data.

Health officials have administered an average of 72 coronavirus tests per day to Alpena County residents in March. Testing was down to an average of 63 tests per day during the past week among county residents.

March testing numbers among Presque Isle, Montmorency, and Alcona County residents have averaged 22, 24, and 17 tests per day, respectively.

Alcona Community Schools officials announced on Thursday the district will move to remote instruction on Friday because of staffing challenges due to COVID-19.

Public health officials on Thursday reported 20 newly infected or probably infected Northeast Michiganders, including 11 Alpena County residents, seven Presque Isle County residents, and two Montmorency County residents.

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

Based on that data, 3,121 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 Wednesday, 33,120 doses of coronavirus vaccine had been administered in Northeast Michigan.

As of Monday, nobody was hospitalized at MidMichigan Medical Center-Alpena with coronavirus infection, according to state data. The hospital was 36% full.

As of Thursday, 76 people 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.