Florida adds 430,000 infections to weekly caseload, setting record

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With the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus continuing to spread, Florida totaled much than 430,000 cases of COVID-19 during the week that ended Thursday, according to a study released Friday by the authorities Department of Health.

The 430,297 cases (up from 396,353 successful the week prior) brought the full for the past 4 weeks to a reported 1.252 cardinal cases.

During the 4 erstwhile weeks successful November and the archetypal fractional of December, the authorities totaled 63,477 cases — showing the monolithic effect the omicron variant has had precocious successful driving up infections.

Of Northeast Florida counties, Duval added the highest fig of cases successful the past week -- 19,329. Alachua (6,524 cases), Clay (3,907 cases), St. Johns (3,507 cases) and Flagler (1,469 cases) rounded retired the apical five.

In all, Florida has had a reported 4.99 cardinal COVID-19 cases and 63,158 nonmigratory deaths since the pandemic started successful aboriginal 2020, according to Department of Health numbers.

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