COVID-19 in Florida: regular daily case count number hits three-month low with 3,141 new cases reported Saturday

Florida reported 3,141 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, sending the 7-day ordinary to its lowest stage in three months because the delta surge seemed all however over, in line with the U.S. facilities for sickness manage.

The state also elevated its COVID-related death count via three on Saturday. Deaths are counted on the day they take place, not the day they're stated and might take up to two weeks or more to be reflected in the records. The solar Sentinel calculates the daily change in the state's total death county for its analysis.

The commonplace for new situations is all the way down to 3,403 as of Saturday and the general for deaths in response to the date mentioned held at 200, unchanged for the third consecutive days. There were greater than three.6 million tested cases of COVID in the state and as a minimum 56,413 Floridians have died on the grounds that the delivery of the pandemic.

Hospitalizations additionally persevered to drop. As of Friday, 3,867 sufferers had been in Florida hospitals with COVID-19, a 24.9% decline from the outdated week and the fewest patients when you consider that mid-July.

here are the newest data:

The CDC on Tuesday up to date its county-with the aid of county COVID numbers, which it has launched weekly. South Florida counties have among the lowest situations per capita within the state, this week's facts suggests. The records are for the week of Sept. 27-Oct. 3.

Palm beach County noticed a 19% drop in situations and a forty three% drop in deaths;

Broward County saw a 19% drop in situations and a 15% drop in deaths;

Miami-Dade County noticed a 33% drop in circumstances and a 35% drop;

Orange County saw a 27% drop in circumstances and a 54% drop in deaths.

Florida continues to drop in rankings of situations per capita, falling to 47th as of Saturday, based on manhattan instances records. The facts suggests 17 COVID instances per a hundred,000 population in Florida. Alaska ranked first with a hundred and ten average situations per 100,000 as of Oct. 9.

After ranking first for a couple of weeks among states in deaths per capita, Florida has dropped to eighth as of Saturday, the instances data shows, with 0.91 deaths per a hundred,000 residents. Idaho ranked first as of Oct. 9 with 1.seventy one deaths per one hundred,000.

Florida's positivity price has been declining due to the fact that mid-August, a further indication the state may additionally have passed the top of the delta surge. The state releases positivity statistics weekly.