While Florida may avoid the title of “COVID hotspot,” the state is still seeing an uptick in cases and deaths.
Thursday’s report from the Florida Department of Health showed that there were an addition of 39 new deaths, which brings the number of virus fatalities in the state to more than 17,000.
Those numbers don’t necessarily mean those people died Thursday, but rather the state learned of their deaths and added the numbers to the report that day. The state’s report lists coronavirus deaths by the date the people tested positive for the virus, not the date they passed.
Case increases in recent days have caused the statewide 14-day moving average to rise to 7.75%. On Oct. 23, it was 3.66%.
This all comes as election week continues forward with no clear winner as of Friday.
Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings said current COVID-19 case numbers are concerning.
“It took us weeks to have 330 cases. Now we are having 330 cases in one day,” Demings said.
Orange County announced another 15 deaths Friday and increased the positivity rate to 6 percent.
Alvina Chu, an Epidemiologist with the Florida Department of Health in Orange County said that people need to continue to follow CDC guidelines.
“We want people to not let up on their good pandemic precautions, and so to maintain wearing a face covering or a mask, and also maintaining good social distancing and also practicing good hand hygiene,” Chu said.
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Below is information provided by the Florida Department of Heath for Friday, Nov. 6.
Cases
The Florida Department of Health reported 5,245 new cases on Friday, bringing the state’s overall total to 832,625 cases since March.
Deaths
The Florida Department of Health on Friday reported 54 people have recently died from COVID-19. As of Friday’s coronavirus report, a total of 17,224 deaths across the state have been related to the coronavirus, a number that includes 210 non-resident deaths in Florida.
State health officials have always maintained that virus fatalities are often delayed in being reported to the FDOH, with some deaths not reported for a month or more.
Hospitalizations
Currently, there are 2,564 people with the virus hospitalized in Florida, according to the state Agency for Health Care Administration.
The state reported 188 new hospitalizations ons Friday, meaning the state has seen a total of 50,265 patients admitted to a hospital since March in relation to COVID-19.
Positivity Rate
The percent of positive results ranged from 3.67% to 7.72% over the past two weeks and was 6.36% Thursday.
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Below is a breakdown of the coronavirus numbers across the 10-county Central Florida region for Friday Nov. 6:
| County | Cases | New Cases | Hospitalizations | New Hospitalizations | Deaths | New Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brevard | 12,429 | 111 | 1,053 | 4 | 385 | 1 |
| Flagler | 2,254 | 6 | 173 | 1 | 40 | 0 |
| Lake | 9,103 | 56 | 750 | 3 | 236 | 2 |
| Marion | 11,205 | 45 | 1,088 | 1 | 355 | 3 |
| Orange | 48,322 | 307 | 1,635 | 4 | 576 | 9 |
| Osceola | 14,869 | 102 | 851 | 1 | 211 | 1 |
| Polk | 23,879 | 116 | 2,516 | 10 | 637 | 2 |
| Seminole | 10,801 | 76 | 764 | 3 | 250 | 5 |
| Sumter | 3,047 | 21 | 298 | 0 | 88 | 1 |
| Volusia | 13,439 | 79 | 992 | 4 | 329 | 3 |
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