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Washtenaw County COVID-19 Cases Reach Nearly 1,000 Cases
Washtenaw County is very quickly approaching 1,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 Cases, since testing for the disease had begun about a month ago, according to MLive.
As of Thursday, Aprily 23rd, 966 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the county, with 42 confirmed deaths from the virus.
At first, health officials did report seeing a slowing in confirmed cases, but they believe that may have been due to a lag in the reporting case numbers from testing centers.
There have been twenty-two new recoveries from the illness, make the number of recoveries in the county at 447, from the Wasthenaw County Health Department.
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