Michigan reports 929 new coronavirus cases, 8 deaths Friday

Slone Terranella
Detroit Free Press

An additional 929 coronavirus cases have been confirmed by the state health department Friday, bringing Michigan's total to 120,526.

Friday's report also includes eight new COVID-19 deaths. This brings the state's death toll to 6,708 since the first coronavirus-related death was reported by the state in March.

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Michigan has a fatality rate of 5.6% among known cases.

Data from the health department also included 12,851 probable cases and 319 probable deaths, bringing the total cases to 133,377 and deaths to 7,027.

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