COVID-19 cases up nearly 1,800

Total deaths in state top 7,000

There were nearly 1,800 new confirmed coronavirus cases reported in Michigan on Saturday, according to the state’s website.

The state saw 1,791 new cases and 23 newdeaths due to the virus on Saturday.

This brought Michigan’s total number of cases to 144,897 and its total number of deaths to 7,010.

The state also said 15 of the 23 new deaths reported on Saturday were added from its regular reviews of death certificate data maintained in vital records reporting systems, which are conducted by Michigan Department of Health and Human

Services staff three times per week.

The state did not update its specific totals by county on Saturday; however, its overall numbers were updated by 3:30 p.m.

Numbers which were not updated also included diagnostic and serology testing.

As of Saturday, 109,539 people have recovered from COVID-19, a number which is updated by the state every Saturday.

Worldwide outlook

Globally, the number of cases of COVID-19 neared 40 million on Saturday, with deaths at more than 1.1 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

And, in the United States, which still has the most cases and deaths worldwide, the caseload is more than 8.09 million and deaths were over 219,000.

Michigan has been ranked 10th in the nation for the number of deaths, between Georgia and Arizona, with New York as first, according to Johns Hopkins.

On Friday, Governor Gretchen Whit - mer signed Senate Bill 1108, which allowed city councils, school boards and other public bodies

to continue to meet remotely.

This fol lowed several days of confusion, with several counties in the Detroit area canceling meetings, after the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Monday that its nullification of all of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus orders went into effect immediately.