Michigan reported slightly fewer COVID-19 cases Friday than Thursday, but the numbers were still up over recent weeks.
There were 460 new cases, the state said. That raises the state’s total to 65,135.
There were three new deaths reported, increasing the state’s total to 5,969.
After a steady decrease in cases, Michigan numbers are creeping up again. The current seven-day average is 338 cases per day, after that number had decreased to 152 on June 15. That day also marked the lowest total cases since the start of the pandemic with 74 cases.
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Among them is testing.
In all, 23,423 diagnostic COVID-19 tests were reported in Michigan on Wednesday, the most in a single day since the pandemic began. It’s an increase of 6,648 tests from the day before, when 16,775 tests were done statewide.
Of them, 3.14% were positive, an increase in the percentage of positive tests, which hit its lowest point June 8 when 1.8% of tests yielded positive results.
The coronavirus pandemic has more heavily affected Black Michiganders; they have had higher infection and death rates than whites. The reasons are complex, and include racial disparities in housing and health care, as well as economic and employment factors, experts say.