Florida adds 39,000 new COVID cases from Christmas weekend

MIAMI – Florida reported 39,000 caller COVID-19 cases connected Monday from the Christmas weekend, arsenic thousands of radical waited successful lines for tests pursuing vacation gatherings and flights connected crowded airplanes.

Florida reported 17,955 caller cases from Sunday and different 21,040 cases from Christmas Day, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Florida has seen a crisp summation successful caller COVID-19 cases successful the past week. Last Friday, it added much than 32,000 cases, a time aft reporting 31,000 successful 1 time arsenic well.

Following the Christmas weekend, thousands of Floridians astir the authorities lined up sometimes for hours Monday to get COVID-19 tests. At a investigating tract connected the eastbound broadside of Orlando, immoderate radical waited 3 hours for their turn.

“I consciousness terrible. I consciousness similar I wanna beryllium astatine location successful bed, instrumentality a acold shower. It’s getting pugnacious retired here,” Irma Bernabe told Orlando tv presumption WESH.

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At Miami-Dade County libraries, workers handed retired 90,000 escaped take-home COVID tests, according to the Miami Herald. The region besides distributed much than 12,000 tests astatine its libraries connected Christmas Eve.

The fig of caller COVID-19 cases adjacent forced the cancellation of the latest show of George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” by the Miami City Ballet.

The creation institution said it had to marque “the hard decision,” and lone announced it publically astir an hr earlier the Sunday day amusement astatine the Adrienne Arsht Center successful downtown Miami.

“These are challenging times for each and we genuinely admit your enactment and knowing arsenic we navigate the indispensable changes,” said the connection posted connected the company's Instagram page.

The Miami City Ballet has not yet announced whether the last performances slated for Wednesday and Thursday successful West Palm Beach volition spell connected arsenic planned.

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