DETROIT VACCINATIONS

Vaccination teams will begin visiting Detroit homes Monday as part of the city’s effort to administer COVID-19 vaccines to residents who are homebound.

Detroit officials are urging residents to get vaccinated against COVID as city vaccine rates dwindle amid the region's virus surge.

The city partnered with the Pistons in the hopes of boosting vaccination rates. Detroit is lagging behind other cities with only about 30% vaccinated.

The city of Detroit is teaming up with the Detroit Pistons for a special COVID-19 vaccination event this weekend.

Detroit officials are urging residents to get vaccinated against COVID as city vaccine rates dwindle amid the region's virus surge.

Michigan is being called the epicenter of COVID-19 once again as the numbers across the state continue to climb.

For the seventh week in a row, the state of Michigan is the worst in the nation in terms of coronavirus cases.

“We want to get back to family time,” Smith said. ”We have a big family. We like to gather but we don’t want to compromise our older people in the family, so we all came to do our part.”

The City of Detroit is launching eight neighborhood COVID-19 vaccination sites, adding to an expansion at TCF Center, to combat surging cases and hospitalizations in the city.

As COVID numbers continue to skyrocket, one Ann Arbor family is thrilled to be preparing to have the youngest members finally get vaccinated.

Coronavirus vaccinations are expected to ramp up across Michigan this week.

DETROIT – Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced the expansion of the city’s vaccine eligibility to restaurant workers, grocery store employees, janitors and security guards. “We have more good news in the health department’s effort to get more vaccines out to more Detroiters,” Duggan said. Anybody handling food or beverages or food supply. Duggan said anyone who works in the qualifying industries can get a COVID-19 vaccination no matter how old they are. READ: Food service workers in Detroit are now eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccineThe full list of those eligible includes the following: