Michigan Adds Over 600 New Coronavirus Cases Thursday

MICHIGAN — The state added more than 600 new cases of the coronavirus on Thursday, bringing the number of total cases closer to 72,000.

Michigan health officials reported that it had 645 new cases of the coronavirus as of 10 a.m. Thursday, an uptick that brought statewide case totals to 71,842. The state added 16 deaths attributed to the virus, bringing the coronavirus death toll in Michigan to 6,101.

Thursday's update comes after the state reported nearly 1,000 new cases on Wednesday.

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Health officials said 13 of the state's 16 new deaths were identified during vital records review.

Regular reviews of death certificate data maintained in Vital Records reporting systems are done by the MDHHS three times per week, the state said. As a part of this process, records that identify coronavirus infection as a contributing factor to death are compared against all laboratory confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the Michigan Disease Surveillance System.

If a death certificate is matched to a confirmed coronavirus case and that record in the MDSS does not indicate the individual died, the MDSS record is updated to indicate the death and the appropriate local health department is notified, according to the state. These matched deaths are then included with mortality information posted to the Michigan Coronavirus website.

Michigan ranks 13th in the nation in coronavirus cases, according to data provided by the World Health Organization. The state ranks seventh in the nation in deaths attributed to the virus.

More than 3.6 million cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in the U.S., according to the World Health Organization. That number includes over 140,000 coronavirus deaths and more than 1.6 million recoveries.

Over 13.8 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported across the globe as of Thursday, according to the World Health Organization. Of those, more than 589,000 people have died. WHO reported that over 8.2 million people have recovered from the virus.