Michigan Reaches 45,000 Coronavirus Cases

MICHIGAN — More than 45,000 people in Michigan have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the most recent data provided by state health officials. The state also reported that over 4,200 people in Michigan have died from the virus.

Health officials reported 657 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus Wednesday, bringing Michigan's total case number to 45,054. The state also reported 71 new coronavirus-related deaths, bringing the overall death toll to 4,250.

The number of Michiganders who have recovered from the coronavirus, according to state health officials, was over 15,600 as of Saturday.

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State numbers are released daily at 3 p.m. but are indicative of what has been reported by 10 a.m. that day.

Numbers are sometimes altered as public health officials investigate individual cases. Case numbers sometimes do not match numbers provided by respective counties due to several variables, including testing done by private organizations that report to either the state or the county but not both.

Deaths are reported by health care providers and recorded by local health departments. Other data, such as the number of individuals who have recovered at the state level, are released on Saturdays.

Michigan's Coronavirus Trend

While the gross number of people who have tested positive for the coronavirus is concerning, officials have reported that overall numbers are trending in the right direction. The state's newly reported cases and death numbers are listed below, from April 29 to May 5.

While weekend reports (May 2-3) are typically lower than weekday updates, the state still has not reported more than 1,000 new cases since April 29.

Michigan Coronavirus Numbers

Southeast Michigan has the state's highest concentration of confirmed coronavirus cases and reported deaths. Those numbers, broken down by county, are shown below.

Detroit, which reports separately from Wayne County, leads the state in both categories.

More than 9,500 cases have been confirmed in Detroit, which has been proactive in testing since the beginning of the pandemic. The city on Wednesday announced it was doing a second round of testing of residents in its nursing homes, and has seen progress.

Dr. Najibah Rehman, the medical director for the Detroit Health Department, said the department is in the midst of retesting residents in 13 of the city's nursing homes. While facilities had between 30 to 50 percent of those tested test positive during the first round of testing, those figures are declining, Rehman said.

State and federal prisons — which have been the focus of lawsuits as civil rights groups protest the conditions and safety measures put in place to protect inmates from the coronavirus — have not been excluded from the virus. Nearly 2,000 people in state prisons have tested positive for the coronavirus; more than 100 in Michigan's federal facilities have tested positive.

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