This is our 67th week of reporting local COVID numbers. Our area saw a decrease in recent cases, a small up-tick in total cases and one additional COVID-related death.
According to numbers provided by the county, last week we reported there were a total of 2,737 cases from Leonard, west to Oxford. This week, 2,741. Recent cases, which “… are the positive confirmed cases within the last 30 days,” dropped from 8 to 7 — the lowest we have reported since we started reporting these numbers on April 15, 2020. The population for our area is 30,892.
The 48367 ZIP saw an increase in total cases from last week to this — 366 cases to 370; recent cases up from one to five. The 48370 zip total cases stayed at 143 this week; new cases stayed at one case. The 48371 ZIP recent cases dropped from six to one. Total cases stayed at 2,228. COVID deaths for the total area increased to 35 — the additiona death reported in the 48367 ZIP.
COVID-19 numbers are provided by the Oakland County COVID-19 by Zip Code website. Here are the numbers for this week. We tabulated these on Monday, July 19.
48367 — five new case in the last 30 days; 370 total, 11 deaths.
48370 — one new case in the last 30 days; 143 total, two deaths.
48371 — One new case in the last 30 days; 2,228 total, 22 deaths.