New COVID-19 positives continue to climb in the region, with Michigan reporting 20 new cases in the Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin adding another dozen cases in Marinette County.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 data site Tuesday listed seven new positives in Gogebic County, four in Houghton County, four in Dickinson County — local health officials had posted these earlier — plus two each in Delta and Menominee counties and one in Schoolcraft County.

In Wisconsin counties in the region, that state’s COVID-19 data site showed 12 new cases in Marinette County and five in Iron County; that county reported a total of 37 cases by afternoon, a gain of eight since Monday.

For the Upper Peninsula, the MDHHS data site Tuesday had Ontonagon County with one confirmed virus case; Keweenaw two confirmed cases; Luce County three confirmed cases; Alger County three confirmed cases and one probable; Baraga County with five confirmed cases; Schoolcraft County with eight confirmed cases; Mackinac County 10 confirmed cases; Iron County 10 confirmed cases and one death; Chippewa County 21 confirmed cases and four probable; Houghton County 32 confirmed cases and five probable; Dickinson County 34 confirmed cases, one probable and two deaths; Gogebic County 41 confirmed cases, four probable and a death; Delta County 41 confirmed cases, 11 probable and three deaths; Menominee County 54 confirmed cases and four probable; and Marquette County 99 confirmed cases, eight probable and 11 deaths. State numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

The MDHHS also earlier separately had prison inmates as positive in Luce and Chippewa counties.

Using strictly the state figures, the Upper Peninsula as of Tuesday has had 366 confirmed COVID-19 cases with 18 deaths.

The MDHHS reported 573 confirmed new COVID-19 cases in Michigan on Tuesday for a total of 74,725 to date. The state had nine new deaths Tuesday — including four that happened earlier but recently were verified through vital records and testing — for 6,126 to date.

According to the Dickinson-Iron District Health Department, Dickinson County as of Tuesday had 34 confirmed COVID-19 positives, with five recovered, two deaths and 27 cases still active. Iron County has 10 positives, with four recovered, one death and five still active.

Dickinson County Healthcare System as of Monday showed six cases from Dickinson County and 10 cases from other counties; those counties are not identified. DCHS has tested 1,938 people for COVID-19, with 16 positive, 1,867 negative and 55 results still pending. DCHS noted there are several additional sources of testing in Dickinson County.

For Wisconsin counties in the region, the state DHS COVID-19 data site Tuesday listed Marinette County with 189 cases and three deaths; Forest County with 50 cases and four deaths; Iron County 33 cases and one death; Vilas County 21 cases; and Florence County five cases. As with the Michigan data, the state numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports.

Wisconsin had 1,117 new cases Tuesday — a new one-day record in the state — for a total of 44,135 to date, according to the state DHS data site. The state recorded 15 new COVID-19 deaths to reach 859 to date.