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Florida Department of Health Issues Daily Update on COVID-19

August 29, 2020

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Contact: Joint Information Center on COVID-19 for the State of Florida
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Florida Department of Health Issues Daily Update on COVID-19

~COVID-19 Related Floridian Deaths Maintaining Steady Decline in Recent Weeks~ 

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Department of Health (DOH), in order to provide more comprehensive data, releases a report on COVID-19 cases in Florida once per day. Today, data reported to DOH shows there has been a steady decline in the number of reported Florida resident deaths who were previously diagnosed with COVID-19. The third week of July compared to the third week of August, shows a nearly 70 percent decrease in the average number of reported COVID-19 related deaths.

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Today, Florida had the seventeenth straight day below 10 percent positivity of new cases.

Today, as reported at 11 a.m., there are 3,197 new positive COVID-19 cases and 148 reported deaths - 12 occurred yesterday, August 28. As posted on the Agency for Health Care Administration’s hospitalization dashboard at 10:45 a.m., there are 3,855 current hospitalizations with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19.

Test results for more than 72,500 individuals were reported to DOH as of midnight, on Friday, August 28. On August 28, 4.97 percent of new cases** tested positive.

To date, there are a total of 619,003 Florida cases*** with 11,105 deaths related to COVID-19.

Since August 28, the death of one hundred forty-eight Florida residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have been reported in Alachua, Baker, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Clay, Collier, Columbia, Dade, Duval, Escambia, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Indian River, Jackson, Lake, Lee, Leon, Manatee, Marion, Nassau, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota, St. Johns, Sumter, Suwannee, Volusia and Washington counties.

Florida long-term care facility data:

  • The list of long-term care facilities with active COVID-19 cases is available here
  • The list of long-term care facilities with deaths is available here, which is updated weekly.
  • To date, 4,678 individuals that were staff or residents of a long-term care facility have died. 

In order to make the daily COVID-19 report easier to download and more accessible, the daily report separates case line data in a separate PDF. The case line data report is available here. The state also provides a report detailing surveillance data for every Florida county, which is available here. The antibody COVID-19 test results report will be provided once a week and contains county, race and lab information on antibody COVID-19 tests conducted in Florida. The report for antibody tests conducted by private health care providers is available here and the report for antibody tests conducted at state-supported COVID-19 testing sites is available here.

More information on a case-by-case basis can also be found here

Confirmed Cases in Florida Residents

612,206

Confirmed by DOH

22,076

Tested by private labs

590,130

Characteristics of Florida Resident Cases

 

FL resident diagnosed & isolated out of state*

8

Deaths

11,105

Cases in Non-Florida Residents

6,797

Confirmed by DOH

235

Tested by private labs

6,562

 

Total Cases Overview

619,003

Traveled

4,727

Contact with confirmed case

203,443

Travel & contact with confirmed case

4,980

Unknown and Under Investigation

399,056

For more detail on Florida resident cases, please visit the live DOH Dashboard here

* Florida residents that are diagnosed with COVID-19 and isolated out of state are not reflected on the Florida map.

**This percentage is the number of people who test positive for the first time divided by all tests, excluding people who have previously tested positive.

***Total cases overview includes positive cases in Florida residents and non-Florida residents tested in Florida.

 

More Information on COVID-19

To find the most up-to-date information and guidance on COVID-19, please visit the Department of Health’s dedicated COVID-19 webpage. For information and advisories from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), please visit the CDC COVID-19 website, this website is also available in Spanish and Creole. For more information about current travel advisories issued by the U.S. Department of State, please visit the travel advisory website.

For any other questions related to COVID-19 in Florida, please contact the Department’s dedicated COVID-19 Call Center by calling 1-866-779-6121. The Call Center is available 24 hours per day. Inquiries may also be emailed to COVID-19@flhealth.gov.

 

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