More than 1,000 new Florida cases confirmed. State passes 6,700 cases, with 14 new deaths
Florida has more than 6,700 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the state’s health department reported Tuesday evening. State health officials announced 403 more cases since the number reported in the morning, bringing the state total to 6,741.
The state also reported a total of 85 deaths as of Tuesday evening, 14 more deaths since Monday night.
On Tuesday, six new deaths were announced in the morning, and eight in the evening. Of the new deaths reported in the evening, one was in Miami-Dade County, bringing the county’s death toll to seven. The newest death was a 49-year-old man whose case was not travel-related and he had no contact with a positive patient.
Palm Beach also had three new deaths confirmed Tuesday evening, raising its deaths to 14. Lee, Manatee and Sarasota counties also had new deaths reported.
Broward’s death toll stood at 12 on the state Department of Health’s website, but did not reflect a new death reported in a press release by the department Tuesday, for a total of 13. There have not been any deaths in the Keys.
Tuesday saw an additional 1,037 cases confirmed since Monday night. Of the state’s total confirmed cases, 6,490 are Florida residents and 251 are not. Health officials say 857 people in the state are hospitalized with COVID-19 complications, according to health records.
Health officials say 11% of those tested for COVID-19 in Florida tested positive. Statewide, 64,661 tests have been conducted as of Tuesday evening. Of those tests, 56,644 patients have tested negative, while 6,741 tested positive.
Of the six deaths announced Tuesday morning, one was in Broward, two in Miami-Dade and one in Palm Beach counties. The two other deaths were in Hillsborough and Polk counties.
The oldest person to have tested positive for the disease in Florida is a 101-year-old woman in Miami-Dade County, according to health data. Health officials have classified her case as “travel unknown” and have not disclosed if she’s had contact with someone who tested positive for the disease.
The youngest are listed as age “zero” in Broward, Hillsborough, Orange (Orlando area) and Palm Beach counties.
Newly reported COVID-19 deaths in Florida
Here is a breakdown of the new deaths reported Tuesday by the state health department:
▪ A 63-year-old woman who died in Broward is the county’s 13th confirmed COVID-19 death. Health officials say it’s still unknown if she had recently traveled and they have not disclosed whether she was in contact with anyone who tested positive for the disease.
▪ In Miami-Dade, three new deaths were reported, for a total of seven in the county. One of them, a 69-year-old man, is classified as a “not travel-related” case who did not have contact with someone known to have tested positive for COVID-19, according to health records.
Health officials say another man, a 67-year-old, did have contact with someone who tested positive for the disease but it’s still unknown whether he had recently traveled.
The third was a 49-year-old man whose case was not travel-related and he had no contact with a positive patient.
▪ Palm Beach County’s new deaths included a 73-year-old man who had traveled to Egypt and Germany; a 77-year-old man whose case is not travel related and is unknown if he had contact with a positive patient; and a 94-year-old man who did not travel and had no contact with someone who is positive. The 94-year-old was the oldest in the county to test positive.
▪ The 92-year-old woman in Hillsborough and the 60-year-old man in Polk County who died are not considered travel-related cases. Health officials say that while the man did have contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, the Hillsborough woman did not.
COVID-19 in South Florida?
Florida’s Department of Health announced Tuesday evening 197 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Miami-Dade County, raising the total number of known cases in the county to 2,123 with 142 hospitalizations.
Broward County had 10 additional confirmed cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, raising the county’s total to 1,219 known cases with 126 hospitalizations.
Palm Beach County had 37 additional cases confirmed, bringing the total of known cases up to 551 with 64 hospitalizations. One of the new cases is a baby girl whose age is listed as zero, according to health records. A first year of a baby’s life is listed as zero.
Health officials have listed her as a “travel unknown” case and have not said if she’s been in contact with someone who tested positive for the disease.
This is the second baby confirmed to have tested positive for the disease in South Florida. The first was a baby boy in Broward County.
As of Tuesday morning, Florida’s COVID-19 Dashboard no longer lists case data at the county level as travel-related, not travel-related or travel unknown.
Health officials say 737 of the total cases in the state are travel-related, 1,002 are classified as contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, 458 are considered “travel and contact with confirmed case” and 4,293 are listed as unknown or under investigation.
Health officials reported one additional confirmed case of COVID-19 in the Florida Keys Tuesday evening. Monroe County has 27 confirmed cases with zero deaths and five hospitalizations.
South Florida resident breakdown on ages, hospitalizations, deaths
Here’s a South Florida breakdown based on Florida’s Department of Health COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard.
Miami-Dade County: 2,123
▪ 2,086 residents, 36 non-residents, one resident who is not in Florida
▪ Age Range: 2 to 101
▪ Seven deaths and 142 hospitalizations
Broward County: 1,219
▪ 1,192 residents and 27 non-residents
▪ Age Range: 0 to 97
▪ 13 deaths and 126 hospitalizations
Palm Beach County: 551
▪ 525 residents, 24 non-residents and two residents not in Florida
▪ Age Range: 0 to 99
▪ 14 deaths and 64 hospitalizations
Monroe County: 27
▪ 23 residents and four non-residents
▪ Age Range: 19 to 80
▪ Zero deaths and five hospitalizations
This news article will be updated once more information becomes available.
This story was originally published March 31, 2020 at 11:47 AM.
