LANSING, MI — Michigan announced 1,659 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, March 13, breaking a three-day trend of more than 2,000 new daily cases.
In addition to the new cases, Saturday saw 38 newly announced deaths from the virus, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Of those 38 deaths, 30 were identified during a Vital Records review.
(The above chart shows Michigan’s 7-day rolling average of new confirmed coronavirus cases. You can put your cursor over a bar to see the number. You also can click on the option just below the headline to see the actual number of new cases reported by day.)
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday each recorded more than 2,000 new coronavirus cases. Friday in particular had 2,403 new cases, the largest single-day tally since mid-January. Prior to that, Michigan had fewer than 2,000 new cases for 46 straight days.
Michigan is averaging 1,573 new cases per day in the last week – the highest rate since late January. The seven-day average dipped as low as 814 cases per day in mid-February but has been rising ever since.
The state has had a total of 607,437 confirmed coronavirus cases resulting in 15,774 deaths.
(The above chart shows Michigan’s 7-day rolling average of deaths involving confirmed coronavirus cases. You can put your cursor over a bar to see the number. You also can click on the option just below the headline to see the actual number of new deaths reported by day.)
Though updated figures weren’t available for March 13, the MDHHS reports 1,870,979 Michigan residents have been vaccinated as of March 11. About 23.1% of Michigan adults have received at least one shot.
Michigan has put more than 2.8 million shots in arms since vaccinations started in December – including nearly 1.6 million Pfizer shots, 1.3 million Moderna shots and 11,582 Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
State leaders announced Friday that anybody 16 and older will be eligible for a vaccine starting April 5. Also, eligibility will open earlier for people 50 and older, as well as people with disabilities or medical conditions.
Case reporting
First is a chart showing new cases reported to the state each day for the past 30 days. This is based on when a confirmed coronavirus test is reported to the state, which means the patient first became sick days before.
You can call up a chart for any county, and you can put your cursor over a bar to see the date and number of cases.
(In a few instances, a county reported a negative number (decline) in daily new cases, following a retroactive reclassification by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. In those instances, we subtracted cases from the prior date and put 0 in the reported date.)
The next chart below shows new cases for the past 30 days based on onset of symptoms. In this chart, numbers for the most recent days are incomplete because of the lag time between people getting sick and getting a confirmed coronavirus test result, which can take up to a week or more.
You can call up a chart for any county, and you can put your cursor over a bar to see the date and number of cases.
For more statewide data, visit MLive’s coronavirus data page, here.
To find a testing site near you, check out the state’s online test finder, here, send an email to [email protected], or call 888-535-6136 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays.
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