Florida breaks the VOCID case record on the last day of the year

Miami – The state of Florida, one of the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, announced Thursday that on the last day of the year the record for coronavirus positives was broken a week after the Christmas family reunions.

The Department of Health reported 17,192 new cases of coronavirus, far exceeding the 15,300 cases reported on July 12, when the state was in the worst of the first wave of the pandemic, as well as 127 new deaths due to the disease .

These figures bring the total number of cases and deaths in the state to 1,323,315 and 21,990, respectively.

But today’s figure is not something isolated, but the average number of cases reported per day is around 12,700 in the last week.

This new wave of VOCID-19 comes after Florida experienced an atrocious summer, breaking national records when it recorded more than 15,000 cases in one day.

Since then, only California and Texas, the two most populous states in the country and the ones most affected by global pandemic calculations in the U.S., have reported figures in excess of those 15,000 in a single day.

The positivity rate of the nearly 166,000 tests performed this Wednesday in the state was 11.57%, at a time when only 22% of hospital beds and 18% of intensive care units were available.

Again the focus in Florida falls on Miami-Dade County, with 2,973 new cases in the last few hours, while its northern neighbor, Broward County, totaled 1,572.

Thus, South Florida, where 29% of Florida residents live, accounts for 39.2% of cases with a total of 519,373 positives.

And the picture at the national level is not much better, as this week saw a record number of deaths daily, with 3,740 this Wednesday, 15 more than those recorded the day before, according to independent data from Johns Hopkins University.

These figures confirm the fears of the country’s health authorities, who asked the population to avoid meetings of more than one family group during these December holidays to prevent the coronavirus from spreading further after the wave of cases that followed the celebration of Thanksgiving and from which they had not yet recovered.

Long-term hope is in vaccines, and as of this Thursday more than 211,165 people had received it in Florida, 35,700 more than the day before.