(FOX 2) – On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 the state of Michigan announced 796 new cases of COVID-19 and seven additional deaths linked to the virus.
Based on the overall health count, this raises the total number of instances since the first case shown to 88,756 with 6,264 virus-like deaths. You can view recent case numbers and death updates below.
This week, many schools are deciding whether to go back to learning plans. You can see which districts have made their decisions here.
On Friday, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended the COVID-19 emergency and crisis declaration in Michigan to September 4, 2020. It is scheduled to expire on August 11.
The state’s medical director, Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, gave more context to the number of COVID-19 cases at Governor Whitmer’s press convention on Wednesday, August 5. It has reached a plateau and continues to spread throughout the region.
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The Detroit, Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo regions have just over 40 cases, matching millions more, and have experienced a steady decline over 2-3 weeks.
Jackson’s domain and the Upconsistent domain with Peninsula have 35 instances that match millions of other people by day and have also experienced steady declines in the last 1 to 2 weeks.
The Saginaw region represents just under 30 instances, which matches millions more in the day and has declined during the following week.
The Lansing region also has just under 30 cases, which matches millions more, depending on the day, but has noticed a 2-week increase in the case rate.
The Traverse City domain is the only region in Michigan with fewer than 10 cases, which matches millions more, which is equal to the day and has also noticed a decline in the last 3 weeks.
This knowledge comes from Governor Whitmer’s press convention on August 5, 2020.
Michigan performs an average of about 28,000 tests a day, Dr. Khaldun said, meaning that about 2% of Michigan’s population is tested each week.
Michigan has also noticed a low in our positive percentage rate last week. Dr. Khaldun said the positive percentage rate is now 3.4%, compared to 3.7%.
Dr. Khaldun said that a positive rate of 3% is the threshold that has been decided to show that network propagation does not occur. When testing increases, as well as the positive percentage rate, it says it indicates that the network is spreading.
If you paint outdoors at home, feel unhealthy, or have been exposed to COVID-19, we recommend that you do a checkup. You can locate a control site in michigan.gov/coronaviruscheck or by calling 211. More than three hundred control sites have been established throughout the state.
This knowledge comes from Governor Whitmer’s press convention on August 5, 2020.
Dr. Khaldun said each region had noticed what was being classified as an epidemic in the week that fitness departments had seen 99 new epidemics, up from 78 in the week that followed.
Epidemics continue to occur in a variety of ways, and the most important ones still occur in long-term care and professional nursing centers, as well as in social gatherings and schools, adding universities, day care centers, and day camps.
This knowledge comes from Governor Whitmer’s press convention on August 5, 2020.
Authorities urge everyone to answer the phone if they receive a call from the fitness department. Text messages are also now sent before the incoming call.
Talking to the fitness service, we will let you know where other people may have been exposed to the virus.
In the meantime, everyone is also reminded to continue to do the basics of being healthy: wear a mask, wash their hands, and stay away from others.