Both Dickinson and Iron counties had a new COVID-19-related death Tuesday, according to local health officials.

The toll rose to nine fatalities in Iron County and three in Dickinson County, which until Tuesday hadn’t had a new death since the first days the virus surfaced in April.

The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department, as has been its practice so far, did not provide any additional details about these latest deaths in respect of the families’ privacy.

The DIDHD on Tuesday also added 22 new COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County and six in Iron County. As of Tuesday, the DIDHD showed 257 confirmed cases and six probables for Iron County, with 35 recovered, nine deaths and 219 cases still active. Dickinson County had 221 confirmed cases and three probables, with 70 recovered, three deaths and 151 cases still active.

Elsewhere in the region, the Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine School District made “the difficult decision” Tuesday to go to virtual learning starting Monday and extending until at least Oct. 26 “or until we have a better idea of the health of our community,” district officials said in a statement posted on Facebook.

Classes will not meet Thursday and Friday as staff plan for virtual classes. The schools will deliver free breakfasts and lunches to students unless staffing is depleted by quarantine to the point curbside pickup will be required. Families are asked to continue to report any illness to the school “so we can monitor our health levels of students and staff.”

In Iron County, Forest Park High School football head coach David Graff resigned, saying he did not agree with district officials to resume practice and athletic play given the COVID-19 outbreak in that county. For more on that decision, see page 1-B.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’s COVID-19 data site Tuesday had 79 new positives in the Upper Peninsula:23 in Dickinson County; 14 in Houghton County, 11 in Menominee County, nine in Delta County, eight in Mackinac County, four in Marquette County, three in Iron and Luce counties, two in Gogebic County, and one each in Baraga, Keweenaw and Schoolcraft counties. It also reduced Alger County’s count by one. The state reflected the new death in Dickinson County but listed two more deaths in Iron County.

In total for the Upper Peninsula, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday had Keweenaw County with 14 confirmed cases and one probable; Luce County, 16 confirmed cases and one probable; Alger County, 21 confirmed and eight probable; Schoolcraft County, 35 confirmed cases and three probable; Baraga County, 36 confirmed cases, 11 probable and three deaths; Ontonagon County, 45 confirmed and one probable; Chippewa County, 54 confirmed cases and 33 probable; Mackinac County, 62 confirmed cases and 21 probable; Gogebic County, 166 confirmed cases, 15 probable and a death; Dickinson County, 235 confirmed cases, three probable and three deaths; Iron County, 254 confirmed cases, four probable and 10 deaths; Marquette County, 369 confirmed cases, 83 probable and 12 deaths; Menominee County, 419 confirmed cases, 73 probable and three deaths; Houghton County, 583 confirmed cases, 117 probable and three deaths; and Delta County, 630 confirmed cases, 92 probable and 10 deaths. State numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

Using only the state figures Tuesday, the Upper Peninsula has had 2,939 confirmed COVID-19 cases to date with 45 deaths.

The MDHHS reported 903 confirmed new COVID-19 cases in Michigan on Tuesday for a total of 129,826 to date. The state added 22 new deaths Tuesday — including seven that happened earlier but recently were verified through vital records and testing, according to the MDHHS — for a total of 6,838.

For Wisconsin counties in the region, the state Department of Health Services’ COVID-19 data site Tuesday had 17 new cases in Vilas County, 11 in Marinette County, six in Forest County and two in Florence County.

The DHS on Tuesday had Marinette County with 1,146 confirmed cases, 37 probable cases and nine deaths; Forest County, 347 confirmed, four probable and seven deaths; Vilas County, 286 confirmed, eight probable and a death; Iron County, 149 confirmed, eight probable and one death; and Florence County, 115 confirmed and two deaths. As with the Michigan data, the state numbers are updated daily but can lag behind local reports or have other discrepancies.

Wisconsin recorded 2,020 new positives in the state Tuesday for a total of 136,379, according to the state DHS data site. The state added 18 new COVID-19 deaths Tuesday to reach 1,399.