COVID-19 Update — March 17, 2021

According to Oakland County government, in the last 30 days there were 39 recent cases in the 48359 ZIP code, 55 new cases in the 48360 ZIP code and 77 new cases in the 48362 area.

Total numbers by ZIP code:

48359: 540 total cases, eight deaths. (Population of 9,634)

48360: 631 total cases, six deaths. (Population of 12,055)

48362: 869 total cases, 15 deaths. (Population of 15,756) This includes the Village of Lake Orion.

For more information, visit oakgov.com/covid/casesByZip.html.

Lake Orion Community Schools

As of Monday, LOCS had reported eight new cases of positive COVID-19 individuals in the schools including students at Paint Creek, Carpenter, Orion Oaks, LOHS and Waldon.

LOCS has had 95 total positive cases among students and staff during the 2020-21 school year, according to the district’s website lakeorionschools.org.

Within the district boundaries, there are currently 135 cases of COVID-19 or 32.7 per 10,000 people, according to oakgov.com/covid/casesByZip.html

Oakland County

Oakland County overall has had 67,042 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 11,049 probable cases, the highest in the state.

There have been 1,916 confirmed total deaths along with 111 probable deaths from the virus, according to michigan.gov/coronavirus.

Additionally, according to the MI Safe Start Map, Oakland County is listed at the highest risk level (level E), a two level regression from last week, for contracting COVID-19 with the county seeing an average of 209.4 new cases each day.

Michigan

As of Monday, Michigan had a total of 610,580 confirmed cases of Coronavirus, 63,336 probable cases, 15,783 deaths and 996 probable deaths from COVID-19, since the pandemic began, according to michigan.gov/coronavirus.

There have been 11,454,997 tests performed as of March 8.

According to the MI Safe Start Map, the state is listed at the highest risk level (level E) for contracting COVID-19 with an average of 1,575.1 new cases per day.

United States

On Monday, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed 29,269,590 cases of Coronavirus in the United States as well as 532,355 deaths from COVID-19, according to cdc.gov/coronavirus.

 

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