The Globe - Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

By ZACHARY MARANO

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HANCOCK — Because of an increase in COVID-19 cases in the county, Gogebic County was reclassified as a “high” level of community spread in the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department’s weekly update on Saturday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all people take additional precautions at high community levels. These include wearing a well-fitting mask indoors in public, regardless of vaccination status.

At medium and high community levels, the CDC recommends that immunocompromised and high-risk individuals we...