(WXYZ) — The State of Michigan is reporting 1,540 new COVID-19 cases and 118 new deaths over the last two days.
That works out to an average of about 770 cases per day for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Monday's per-day case rate of 455 was the lowest average case rate since it was 440 per day on July 27. At this time in 2021, Michigan reported 2,048 cases for March 16. Michigan reported its first two cases on March 10, 2020. By March 16, 2020, that had risen to 54 cases.
The total number of cases to 2,068,817 and the total number of deaths to 32,561 since the pandemic began.
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