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Free coronavirus tests coming to some Michigan households

The studio administers Covid-19 tests to anyone who wants to enter — and tests the whole staff, nearly 400 people, on Fridays.
Meghan Collins Sullivan
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The studio administers Covid-19 tests to anyone who wants to enter — and tests the whole staff, nearly 400 people, on Fridays.

People in eight Michigan counties and the city of Detroit are eligible to receive COVID-19 at-home tests from the state.

The State of Michigan has partnered with the Rockefeller Foundation to send 250-thousand free COVID 19 tests to 50 thousand households.

People living in eligible ZIP codes in Berrien, Genesee, Kent, Macomb, Muskegon, Oakland, Saginaw and Wayne counties, and the City of Detroit are eligible to order one test kit per household from the Project Act website.

Each kit contains five tests and should arrive in Amazon packaging within one to two weeks after being ordered.

Meanwhile, the number of new daily positive COVID tests declined over the weekend, with just over seven thousand positive tests on average each day over the weekend and Monday.