State reports 11,256 new virus cases, 103 deaths

Florida reported 11,256 new coronavirus cases on Monday and another 103 new resident deaths linked to COVID-19. The state has now reported 1,376,692 cases since the pandemic began.

South Florida

Palm Beach County: 796 additional cases and 12 more deaths. The county now has 86,275 confirmed cases and 1,950 deaths, including 29 non-residents.

Broward County: 983 additional cases and 10 more deaths. Broward has a known total of 141,993 cases and 1,913 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. The death tally includes 31 non-residents.

Miami-Dade County: 2,525 additional cases and 5 new deaths. The county now has 308,259 confirmed cases and 4,283 deaths, including 27 non-residents.

Testing and positivity

Public health experts say the virus is considered under control when the COVID-19 test positivity rate is under 5%. But since Oct. 29, Florida has exceeded 5% in its widely publicized calculation for assessing the rate for testing of residents.

The state reported a daily positivity rate of 12.50% on Monday, up from 12.41% the day before. This method of calculating positivity counts new infections only, but also counts repeat negative tests, which skews the figure downward.

According to the state, the new reported case numbers reflect the results of 89,710 COVID-19 tests of Florida residents received from labs in the past day, up from 83,761 results reported the day before.

Palm Beach County: Test results for 6,800 residents were reported Monday, leading to a daily positivity rate of 11.74%. That’s up from 7.58% the previous day.

Broward County: Test results for 9,595 residents were reported Monday, leading to a daily positivity rate of 10.45%. That’s up from 10.42% the previous day.

Miami-Dade County: Test results for 23,706 residents were reported Monday, leading to a daily positivity rate of 10.97%. That’s down from 13.06% the previous day.

Deaths

The state’s pandemic data report shows a total of 22,090 Floridians have died from COVID-19. In addition, 325 non-residents have died after contracting the virus. Most of the fatalities reported Monday happened over several weeks but were just confirmed in the past day.

Hospitalizations

As of Monday, there were 7,233 people hospitalized in Florida with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19, according to the state Agency for Health Care Administration.

In South Florida, Broward County reported 600, Palm Beach County had 398 and Miami-Dade had 1,074.