Florida’s total cases exceed 1.25 million after the holidays

ORLANDO, Fla. – The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Florida increased by 7,000, health officials reported Sunday.

New cases reported on Sunday raised the state’s figure to more than 1.25 million since the outbreak began earlier this year.

More than 21,200 Floridians have now died as a result of COVID-19, with more than 70 new deaths added to the death toll on Sunday.

The number of people tested for COVID-19 was significantly lower over the past two days, and it remains to be seen whether or not meetings over the Christmas weekend will increase the number of infections in the state, such as was the case after the Thanksgiving holiday.

More than 171,000 people were tested for the virus on Friday and Saturday, dramatically below the 343,000 that were done the previous two days.

More than 6,300 people were in hospital Sunday because of the virus, according to data from the State Department of Health.

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Cases

The Florida Department of Health reported 7,391 new cases on Sunday, bringing the state’s total to 1,271,979 cases since March. New cases include Thursday and Friday totals.

Editor’s note: along with resources previously used by News 6 (state i county by county data), as of December 7, WKMG has added state data extracted from the file Florida Department of Health Florals, COVID19, Total State Tests. This new data set includes the number of people tested the day before, which is the number that public health officials use to calculate the state’s daily positivity rate.

Deaths

Florida reported 77 new virus deaths Sunday. That means at least 21,514 people have died in connection with the coronavirus statewide, inclusive 302 non-residents who died in Florida.

Hospitalizations

From Sunday afternoon, there are currently 5,912 people with the virus hospitalized in Florida, according to the state agency for the administration of health care.

Since March, 61,459 people have been hospitalized in Florida after coronavirus complications. That number includes 171 people who have recently been hospitalized because of the virus, according to the health department’s daily report.

Positivity rate

The percentage of positive results ranged from 7.88% to 9.83% in the last two weeks and was 9.69% on Saturday.

Vaccines

Recently, the Florida Department of Health began publishing a daily report on COVID-19 vaccines administered statewide. Since Sunday, 118,764 people have been vaccinated in Florida.

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county	Cases	New cases	Hospitalizations	New Hospitalizations	Deaths	New deaths
Brevard	20,145	95	1,406	4	513	0
Flagler	3,542	14	220	0	48	0
lake	14,723	96	963	5	290	2
Marion	17,030	111	1,299	1	454	3
orange	73,050	387	1,925	4	728	1
Osceola	24,290	66	1,058	3	286	3
Polk	35,656	263	3,282	0	767	1
Seminol	17,341	75	897	5	309	2
Sumter	4,783	29	374	0	118	0
Volusia	21,275	66	1,258	5	424	4

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