Florida coronavirus total passes the million mark
Florida has confirmed more than one million cases of COVID-19.
The state hit the milestone Tuesday when the Florida Department of Health confirmed 8,847 additional cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, bringing the state’s known total to 1,008,166.
That makes Florida the third state in the country to record one million cases since the pandemic began in March, according to The New York Times. The other two states are Texas and California.
Florida also announced 82 COVID-19 related resident deaths, bringing the resident toll to 18,679. It is still unclear if there were any new non-resident deaths. On Monday, the cumulative non-resident toll was 237.
Miami-Dade County
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reported 2,143 additional cases and four new deaths, according to Florida’s Department of Health. The county has a total of 231,761 confirmed cases and 3,839 deaths. Positivity for new cases (people who tested positive for the first time) decreased from 9.88% to 9.65%. The 14day percent positivity average was 8.31%, according to Miami-Dade County’s New Normal dashboard.
Broward County
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reported 801 additional cases and no new deaths. The county now has a known total of 108,325 cases and 1,664 deaths.
Positivity for new cases decreased from 8.42% to 7.11%.
Palm Beach County
● saw 564 additional cases and three new deaths. The county now has 65,936
confirmed cases and 1,697 deaths. Positivity for new cases increased from 7.50% to 9.87%.
con● firmed 11 additional cases and one new death. The
Monroe County
county has a known total of 3,392 cases and 28 deaths. Positivity for new cases decreased from 7.58% to 7.28%.
On Tuesday, Florida’s Department of Health reported the results of 111,627 people tested on Monday. The positivity rate of new cases increased from 8.38% to 8.69%.
If retests are included — people who have tested positive once and are being tested for a second time — the positivity rate decreased from 10.99% to 10.50%, according to the report.
As of 3:02 p.m. Tuesday, there were 4,279
COVID-19 patients admitted into hospitals throughout the state, according to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration dashboard.
Of Tuesday’s hospitalizations, 438 were in Broward, 292 in Palm Beach and seven in Monroe, according to the agency.
Miami-Dade hospitalizations increased from
796 to 799, according to the county’s dashboard. According to Tuesday’s data, 111 people were discharged and 110 people were admitted.
The state has had a total of 55,197 Florida residents hospitalized for COVID-19related complications, according to Florida’s COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard.