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, on Saturday there were 38 deaths recently announced by the virus, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Of these 38 deaths, 30 were identified during a review of vital records.
(The graph above shows the 7-day continuous average of new confirmed coronavirus cases in Michigan. You can place your cursor over a bar to see the number. You can also click on the option just below the title to see the actual number of new cases reported per day.)
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, each registered more than 2,000 new cases of coronavirus. Friday in particular had 2,403 new cases, the highest single-day count since mid-January. Before that, Michigan had less than 2,000 new cases for 46 consecutive days.
Michigan has averaged 1,573 new cases per day in the past week – the highest rate since late January. The seven-day average dropped to 814 cases a day in mid-February, but has been increasing ever since.
The state had a total of 607,437 confirmed cases of coronavirus, resulting in 15,774 deaths.
(The graph above shows Michigan’s 7-day moving average of deaths involving confirmed cases of coronavirus. You can place your cursor over a bar to see the number. You can also click on the option just below the title to see the actual number of new deaths reported per day.)
Although the updated figures were not available for March 13, the MDHHS reports that 1,870,979 Michigan residents were vaccinated by March 11. About 23.1% of Michigan adults received at least one injection.
Michigan has delivered more than 2.8 million injections to guns since vaccinations began in December – including nearly 1.6 million injections from Pfizer, 1.3 million injections from Moderna and 11,582 Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
State leaders announced on Friday that anyone 16 and older will be eligible for a vaccine starting April 5. In addition, eligibility will be opened earlier for people aged 50 and over, as well as people with disabilities or medical conditions.
Case report
The first is a graph 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 that the patient first became ill days before.
You can access a chart for any county and place your cursor over a bar to see the date and number of cases.
(In some cases, a county reported a negative number (decline) in new daily cases, after a retroactive reclassification by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. In these cases, we subtract the cases from the previous date and put 0 on the reported date.)
The next graph below shows new cases in the last 30 days based on the onset of symptoms. In this graph, the numbers for the most recent days are incomplete due to the time lag between people getting sick and getting a result of the confirmed coronavirus test, which can take up to a week or more.
You can access a chart for any county and place your cursor over a bar to see the date and number of cases.
For more data across the state, visit the MLive coronavirus data page, here.
To find a test site near you, check the state’s online test finder here, send an email to [email protected] or call 888-535-6136 between 8 am and 5 pm on weekdays.
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