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There have been 1,917 people who have died from the new coronavirus across Florida, an increase of 42 over the previous 24 hours.
There have been 1,917 people who have died from the new coronavirus across Florida, the state Health Department reported Friday. That’s an increase of 42 over the previous 24 hours.
Florida has had a total of 44,138 people with infections, which is 928 more than on Thursday.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday the increase in cases is mainly because of some isolated outbreaks in prisons and nursing homes.
“In terms of new cases, clearly fewer cases coming in, even with more testing, than what we were getting at the height” of the pandemic, he said at a news conference in Jacksonville.
At least 25,535 people in South Florida have tested positive for the new coronavirus, the state reported Friday. That’s 458 more than the day before.
The Department of Health data also shows that 1,091 people in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties have died from COVID-19, up 26 from Thursday.
The three South Florida counties, home to 29.9% of Florida’s population, have had 56.9% of the state’s coronavirus deaths and 58% of the cases. The region
leads the state in the number of cases.
“The data and the facts are very clear that southeast Florida, even though they had to face the most significant epidemic in the state of Florida, they flattened the curve,” DeSantis said Thursday.
Breaking down South Florida’s statistics further, the report released Friday shows:
Miami-Dade County, the Florida coronavirus hot spot, has had 15,011 cases, an increase of 269 from Thursday. The number of deaths in MiamiDade, 548, is 13 more than it was a day earlier. MiamiDade County, which has 13% of the state’s population, has 34% of the state’s cases and 28.6% of the deaths.
Broward has had 6,133 cases, 76 more than Thursday. There have been 272 deaths, an increase of five in the last 24 hours.
Palm Beach County has had 4,391 cases, 113 more than Thursday. It has had 271 deaths, eight more than Thursday.
U.S., global view: The coronavirus death toll in the United States rose to 87,204 on Friday evening, including at least 27,841 victims in the national hot spot of New York.
The country has 1.4 million cases.
The Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University reported 4.5 million cases worldwide. More than 306,412 people have died. The United States has 4.3% of the world’s population and 31.8% of the world’s cases.