Florida virus cases: 497,330. Death toll surpasses 7,400
Florida’s Department of Health on Tuesday confirmed 5,446 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state’s known total to 497,330. There were also 245 Florida resident deaths announced, bringing the statewide resident death toll to 7,402.
Tuesday’s daily total of newly confirmed cases is the third consecutive day Florida has reported fewer than 8,000 new cases.
Two new nonresident deaths in the state were also announced, bringing the nonresident toll to 124.
Since test results take at least several days to process, it’s still unclear if the past few days of lower totals were affected by the state-run testing site closures caused by Tropical Storm Isaias.
More than a dozen state and federal testing sites reopened at 8 a.m. Monday in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, with the rest expected to open by Wednesday morning.
While it’s still not clear if the testing closures have affected the totals of the past few days, the threeday rolling average of new daily cases, which helps smooth out day-to-day dips and spikes, shows that Florida has seen a slight decrease in newly confirmed cases in the past two weeks.
Miami-Dade County
reported 1,115 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 30 new deaths, according to Florida’s Department of Health. The county now has 124,759 confirmed cases and 1,724 deaths.
Broward County
reported 422 additional confirmed cases of the disease and 17 new deaths. The county now has 58,953 known cases and 765 deaths.
Palm Beach County saw 379 additional confirmed cases and 16 new deaths. The county now has 34,929 confirmed cases and 861 deaths.
Monroe County reported 10 additional cases of the disease and two new deaths, according to the health department. The Florida Keys now have 1,389 confirmed cases and 13 deaths.
As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, there were 7,857 COVID-19 patients admitted into hospitals throughout the state, according to the Florida Agency for Health Care
Administration dashboard.
Of those, 1,718 were in Miami-Dade, 1,103 in Broward, 476 in Palm Beach and 14 in Monroe counties, according to the agency.
On Tuesday, MiamiDade hospitalizations for COVID-19 complications decreased from 1,943 to 1,936, according to MiamiDade County’s “New Normal” dashboard. According to Tuesday’s data, 172 people were discharged and 130 people were admitted.
The state has had a total of 27,952 Florida residents hospitalized for COVID-19related complications, according to Florida’s COVID-19
Data and Surveillance Dashboard.
Testing in Florida has seen steady growth since the COVID-19 crisis began.
On Tuesday, Florida’s Department of Health reported 60,994 new tests on Monday. The positive rate was 12.70% of the total, according to the report.
In total, 4,908,466 tests have been conducted.
To date, 3,758,496 people have been tested in Florida. Of the total tested, 491,884 (about 13.09%) have tested positive.
The state says there are 3,228 tests with pending results.