People hold successful a agelong enactment to get a COVID-19 test, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, successful North Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) (Marta Lavandier, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

TALLAHASSEE – Florida totaled astir 400,000 caller COVID-19 cases during the week that ended Thursday, arsenic the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus raced done the state, according to a Department of Health study issued Friday.

The 397,114 cases during the week continued a melodramatic summation that began successful mid-December. In all, Florida has totaled 823,153 caller cases during the past 3 weeks, the study showed.

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During the 3 preceding weeks, Florida totaled 53,840 caller cases.

Notably, a full of 76,887 caller COVID-19 cases were reported successful Florida connected Thursday alone, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. It’s a caller one-day grounds for caller cases successful the authorities — somewhat higher than the erstwhile 1 erstwhile 75,732 cases were reported connected Dec. 30.

In Northeast Florida, Duval County added the astir infections to the DOH’s play caseload -- 14,370, according to the state. Alachua County reported 3,789 cases, followed by St. Johns with 3,126 cases and Clay with 2,471.

As of Thursday, the authorities had a reported full of 4.56 cardinal cases and 62,688 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic started successful aboriginal 2020.

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