DETROIT (AP) — Michigan has reported 205 new deaths from COVID-19, the state’s highest daily toll since the pandemic began.

Also Friday, a temporary hospital for coronavirus patients opened at the TCF Center in Detroit to ease the pressure on health care providers.

Locally, there were 88 confirmed cases reported in Berrien County and 12 confirmed cases reported in Cass County.

Despite the rising death toll, hospitals in hard-hit southeastern Michigan have been expressing optimism about their caseloads.

As a result, Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan hasn’t opened a temporary hospital as planned.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has extended her stay-at-home order through April 30. She says the spike in deaths shows “we are not out of the woods yet.”