More Than 3,000 Floridians Have Died From Coronavirus

TALLAHASSEE, FL — The number of deaths from the coronavirus in Florida topped 3,000 Wednesday as state health officials reported 2,610 more cases of the virus following a record-setting 2,783 spike in cases a day earlier.

The state reported 82,719 coronavirus cases on Wednesday, up from 80,109 over the previous 24-hour period. Health officials also reported 1,758 new cases on Monday and more than 2,000 new cases on both Saturday and Sunday following a string of 1,000-plus case days.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has blamed the increase largely on increased testing of people who are asymptomatic. He told reporters Tuesday he had no plans to roll back the state's reopening.

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The state's death toll rose to 3,018 from 2,993 a day earlier. Fourteen Florida counties reported 25 new deaths Wednesday over the previous 24-hour period.

That compares to 55 new deaths on Tuesday, eight new deaths Monday, six new deaths Sunday, 48 new deaths Saturday, 30 news deaths Friday, 47 new deaths Thursday and 36 last Wednesday.

Health officials reported 183 new hospitalizations from the coronavirus across Florida over the previous 24-hour period.

Miami-Dade reported three new deaths Wednesday. Broward County reported two new deaths. Palm Beach County reported six new deaths.

Pinellas County reported three new deaths. St. Lucie County reported two new deaths.

Columbia County reported one new death as did Hendry County, Hillsborough County, Jackson County, Lee County, Manatee County, Orange County, Osceola County and Volusia County.

Miami-Dade reported 23,273 cases of the virus Wednesday. Nearby Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale, reported 9,812 cases. Palm Beach County, which includes West Palm Beach, reported 9,472 cases.

Those three South Florida counties are considered the epicenter of Florida's outbreak, accounting for 42,557 — or about 51 percent — of the total cases in Florida. Last month, those same three South Florida Counties accounted for about 58 percent of the cases, which indicates other Florida counties are now seeing a greater share of cases.

Florida had a 5.6 percent positive test rate for the virus based on a total of 1,486,759 tests that had been administered as of Wednesday. The number of hospitalizations in Florida increased to 12,389 from 12,206 a day earlier.

Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, reported 4,273 cases. Orange County, which includes Orlando, reported 3,584 cases.

In an attempt to provide as much information to our readers as possible, Patch is publishing the following county-by-county breakdown of the coronavirus cases in Florida's 67 counties, along with the median age of patients, the number of hospital cases by county and the number of deaths.

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Patch updates this chart once each day based on data provided by the Florida Department of Health. The counties that reported new deaths on Wednesday are shown in bold.

Here is the most recent data: