Florida breaks daily COVID cases record for 2nd straight day

MIAMI – A time aft breaking a grounds for the astir cases successful a azygous time since the commencement of the pandemic successful the U.S., Florida added adjacent much cases successful a azygous day, according to information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Friday, the Sunshine State reported 31,758 new COVID-19 cases. It topped that connected Christmas Day with a study of 32,850 added coronavirus cases.

The caller grounds regular increases were driven by the dispersed of the caller omicron variant done Florida.

The erstwhile single-day highest fig of cases was successful precocious August, during the tallness of the delta variant question successful Florida, erstwhile 27,802 cases were reported.

The Florida Department of Health’s play COVID-19 information report, released Friday evening, showed a 13.8% summation this week successful the statewide new-case positivity rate. That’s up from 5.3% past week and 2.6% the week before.

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In the meantime, a South Florida-based cruise vessel experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak is scheduled to instrumentality to Miami connected Sunday pursuing an 8-day cruise.

An undisclosed fig of passengers and unit aboard the Carnival Freedom cruise caught the microorganism truthful the vessel was denied introduction to Bonaire and Aruba, Carnival said successful a statement.

The vessel has 2,497 passengers and 1,112 unit members. Passengers were required to beryllium vaccinated and they were tested earlier leaving past Saturday, according to Carnival.

“Carnival Freedom is pursuing each protocols and has a tiny fig connected committee who are successful isolation owed to a affirmative COVID test," the connection said. “Our protocols expect this anticipation and we instrumentality them arsenic indispensable to support the wellness and information of our guests and crew."

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Ashley Peterson, a rider connected the ship, tweeted a photograph of a Dec. 22 missive from the ship’s skipper apologizing for being incapable to marque stops successful Aruba and Bonaire. The missive said passengers would get $100 per country successful onboard credit, arsenic good arsenic refunds for planned excursions.

It was the 3rd outbreak this week affecting cruise ships operated by Carnival and Royal Caribbean departing Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

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