Florida COVID-19 cases at lowest level in nearly 3 months

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A coronavirus vaccine changeable is administered astatine the Student Health Services astatine UCF.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Florida has gone six consecutive days with less than 4,000 caller COVID-19 cases and the Department of Health’s play summation was lone 25,792 -- down astir one-third from past week and the smallest 7-day summation since the 2nd week of July.

As of Thursday, the authorities has totaled 3,601,755 cases and 56,667 fatalities tied to COVID since the commencement of the pandemic.

This was the sixth consecutive week that Florida reports less caller infections than the week prior. That dates backmost to the mediate of August erstwhile the authorities was averaging much than 21,000 caller cases per day.

The state’s complaint of affirmative tests was down to 4.8% -- the lowest successful months.

Death attributed to the microorganism are besides dropping -- 1,368 successful the past week -- but slower than the wide complaint of infection.

Hospitalizations are besides declining steadily, with conscionable implicit 4,000 patients admitted crossed the authorities with COVID arsenic of Thursday, according to the Florida Hospital Association.

Florida has present vaccinated 11,339,967 residents and the fig of shots is connected the increase.

Several counties successful Northeast Florida country present conscionable the CDC’s explanation of “substantial” transmission, which is simply a measurement beneath High and a measurement supra Moderate. These see Duval, Nassau, Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Flagler and Union. All of these counties person positivity rates considered “moderate” – but their lawsuit rates support them successful the “substantial” category. The different counties are inactive precocious transmission – owed to lawsuit rates implicit 100.