Michigan reports 7,458 new COVID-19 cases, 79 deaths Tuesday

Nisa Khan
Detroit Free Press

Michigan reported 7,458 new cases of COVID-19 and 79 new deaths Tuesday, according to an update from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

The state now has 8,128 confirmed deaths and 272,034 confirmed cases since March.

Michigan had a positivity rate of 14.25% Monday, reporting that 8,178 out of 57,379 diagnostic test results returned were positive.

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Michigan has a fatality rate of 3.0% among known cases.

The state has reported 383 probable COVID-19 deaths and 24,806 probable cases.

The probable cases combined with the confirmed cases make for a cumulative total of 8,511 deaths and 296,840 cases.

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Nisa Khan is a data and Freep Now intern for the Detroit Free Press. Contact her at nkhan@freep.com and follow her on Twitter @mnisakhan

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