by: WOODTV.com staff
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Officials say Michigan has recorded nine more deaths linked to coronavirus and on Monday confirmed 573 new cases of the virus, the latest state data shows.
Updated data released Tuesday afternoon bring the total number of deaths to 6,135 and the total number of cases to 74,725 cases since the virus was first detected in Michigan in March.
Health department officials want to see the positive test percentage drop to consistently below 3%, where it was for much of June. Since July 6, it has been mostly between 3% and 4%. At the peak of Michigan’s outbreak in April, it was around 40%.
On Monday, Kent County confirmed 57 more cases of COVID-19 over the previous day, bringing the total to 5,872 since the start of the outbreak. There was one more death for a total of 146.
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