~New case positivity rate at a low 4.89 percent~
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 tenth straight day below 10 percent positivity of new cases, with a low new case positivity rate at a low 4.89 percent.
Today, as reported at 11 a.m., there are 4,311 new positive COVID-19 cases and 106 reported deaths – 6 occurred yesterday, August 21. As posted on the Agency for Health Care Administration’s hospitalization dashboard at 11 a.m., there are 4,773 current hospitalizations with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19.
Test results for more than 98,600 individuals were reported to DOH as of midnight, on Friday, August 21. On August 21, 4.89 percent of new cases** tested positive.
To date, there are a total of 597,597 Florida cases*** with 10,274 deaths related to COVID-19.
Since August 21, the death of one hundred six Florida residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have been reported in Bay, Brevard, Broward, Collier, Dade, Gulf, Hillsborough, Indian River, Jackson, Lake, Lee, Marion, Okaloosa, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pinellas, Polk, Santa Rosa, Seminole, St. Lucie, Volusia and Walton 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, 4,325 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.