~New case positivity rate below 10 percent for eleventh straight day~
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 eleventh straight day below 10 percent positivity of new cases, with a new case positivity rate at a low 5.52 percent.
Today, as reported at 11 a.m., there are 2,974 new positive COVID-19 cases and 51 reported deaths – 2 occurred yesterday, August 22. As posted on the Agency for Health Care Administration’s hospitalization dashboard at 11:45 a.m., there are 4,578 current hospitalizations with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19.
Test results for more than 61,600 individuals were reported to DOH as of midnight, on Saturday, August 22. On August 22, 5.52 percent of new cases** tested positive.
To date, there are a total of 600,571 Florida cases*** with 10,525 deaths related to COVID-19.
Since August 22, the death of fifty-one Florida residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have been reported in Broward, Dade, Hillsborough, Indian River, Jackson, Lee, Leon, Marion, Palm Beach, Pinellas, Seminole and St. Johns 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, 4,348 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.