Florida tops 71,000 COVID-19 cases for fifth straight week

For the fifth straight week, Florida has posted greater than 71,000 new COVID-19 cases — and greater than 73,000 for the final 4 weeks.

The Florida Department of Health report launched Friday exhibits 74,481 folks examined optimistic for the coronavirus within the week of June 24 – 30. That brings Florida’s complete variety of cases to six,493,977.

The quantity has risen during the last two months as a consequence of unfold of subvariants of the coronavirus. The state has topped 60,000 new cases each week for the reason that week of May 13-19.

As of Thursday, the variety of Florida residents who’ve died with COVID-19 was reported at 75,891.

The state’s positivity price for the week got here in at 19.4%, the best for the reason that week of Jan. 21 – 27. The price for the counties within the better Tampa Bay area ranged between 18.5% (Pinellas County) and 22.1% (Polk County). The final time native charges had been that prime was the week of Jan. 28 – Feb. 3.

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 additionally stay excessive.

The Department of Health and Human Services reported Friday that 3,789 folks had been hospitalized in Florida with COVID-19. While that was down barely from Thursday, it was up virtually 5 p.c from one week earlier.

Almost 12,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had been administered throughout the week, essentially the most since Feb. 25 – March 3.

More than a 3rd of that was within the 6 month to 4-year-old age group, which was licensed to obtain the photographs June 18. Just over 5,100 vaccines have been administered to that group since then — about 0.4% of the a couple of million Florida kids in that demographic.

About 24% of the 1.7 million kids aged 5-11 years outdated have been vaccinated for the reason that vaccine was accredited for them final November.

The News Service of Florida supplied extra info for this story.