Health officials in Michigan reported 1,156 new cases of coronavirus and 68 deaths by Saturday, February 27th.
The deaths that included 62 were identified by a routine death certificate examination.
The percentage of positive cases, compared to overall tests, has remained fairly stable over the past few days. As of Friday, the rate was 3.38 percent, based on 35,949 tests.
State health leaders said a rate of less than 3 percent is a good indication that virus spread is under control.
As of Saturday, the state had recorded 587,581 COVID-19 cases and 15,522 deaths.
The state reports coronavirus recovery statistics once a week.
As of Friday, there were 541,258 recoveries. A recovery is considered to be someone who is still alive 30 days after the onset of COVID-19 symptoms.
The latest hospitalization data show 824 people in Michigan hospitals with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 and 195 people in intensive care units. About a week ago, on February 19, there were 843 patients in total, with 217 in the ICU.
As of Friday, 2.13 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered. This includes approximately 1.36 million first doses and 774,000 second doses.
Pfizer and Moderna recommend two doses of vaccine administered week after week.
Visit MLive’s coronavirus database here for more information across the country.
To find a test site in your area, visit the state’s online test finder here, send an email to [email protected], or call 888-535-6136 between 8am and 5pm on weekdays .
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