The seven-day average of new Covid-19 cases in Allegan County has exploded by eight times the number of new cases reported on Feb. 21.

The Allegan County Health Department Thursday announced that the seven-day average was 58.7, while the number was 7.7 about two and a half months ago.

Yet the number of deaths has remained at 118 over the past six weeks.

Michigan has experienced an explosion of Coronavirus cases over the past five weeks, making it one of the five top hots spots in the nation. On Thursday alone, there were 7,819 new cases and 73 deaths.

Hospitalization numbers across the state have made an alarming leap over the past several weeks in Michigan and Allegan County currently lists 205 in that category.

And positivity rates in testing is greater than double digits in the state, with the county checking in at 14% over the past two weeks.

Allegan County has had 8,835 Covid cases, with 7,428 having been reported as recovered.

The latest surge is suspected to have gotten under way since March 1 after school districts returned to in-person learning and winter sports resumed, including basketball and wrestling, regarded as two of the greatest risk for spreading the virus.