~Eighth straight day below 10 percent positivity of new cases~
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, Florida had the eighth straight day below 10 percent positivity of new cases.
Today, as reported at 11 a.m., there are 4,555 new positive COVID-19 cases and 117 reported deaths – 16 occurred yesterday, August 19. As posted on the Agency for Health Care Administration’s hospitalization dashboard at 11 a.m., there are 5,340 current hospitalizations with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19.
Test results for more than 77,100 individuals were reported to DOH as of midnight, on Wednesday, August 19. On August 19, 6.78 percent of new cases** tested positive.
To date, there are a total of 588,602 Florida cases*** with 10,049 deaths related to COVID-19.
Since August 19, the death of one hundred seventeen Florida residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have been reported in Bay, Brevard, Broward, Citrus, Clay, Collier, Columbia, Dade, Escambia, Flagler, Gulf, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Indian River, Jackson, Lee, Martin, Monroe, Nassau, Okaloosa, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pinellas, Polk, Santa Rosa, Sarasota, St. Lucie and Volusia 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, 4,232 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.