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Michigan recorded a daily average of 1,321 new Covid cases from Wednesday to Friday, more than double the 651 daily cases reported Tuesday for a three-day stretch.
Daily death reports went down this time, with an average of one per day from Wednesday to Friday, compared to 6.5 per day from last Saturday to Tuesday.
Overall, for the week, Michigan recorded 6,567 new Covid cases and 30 deaths, marking the fifth straight increase in weekly case totals.
Since March 2020, Michigan has recorded 910,500 cases of Covid and 19,950 deaths, though 872,992 of the cases are classified as recovered in the health department's latest weekly tally.
In a related announcement Friday, Metro Detroit AFL-CIO president Daryl Newman said its executive board decided "to cancel this year's Labor Day March as we continue to navigate the Covid-19 pandemic." It's the second straight year without the downtown tradition for union members and supporters.
The news comes in wake of a report by WXYZ that Michigan has wasted 193,291 vaccines, mostly because they were unused and expired.
The White House reported this week that 70 percent of U.S. adults have at least one vaccination. In Michigan, nearly 64 percent of residents 16 and older had at least one dose.
The Delta variant is spreading and Center for Disease Control reported that the U.S. had hit a six-month daily high with more than 100,000 cases.
