156 New Coronavirus Hospitalizations, 45 New Florida Deaths

TALLAHASSEE, FL — Florida health officials reported 45 new coronavirus deaths Thursday and 156 new hospitalizations as the number of coronavirus cases reached 53,285.

Thursday's total represents an increase of 651 new cases over the previous 24-hour period.

Seventeen Florida counties reported 45 new deaths Thursday compared to 61 deaths Wednesday, seven deaths Tuesday, 15 nw deaths Monday, four deaths Sunday, 43 deaths Saturday, 59 Friday and 51 last Thursday.

Miami-Dade County reported 14 new deaths. Broward County reported two new deaths. Palm Beach County reported seven new deaths.

Hillsborough County reported four new deaths. Charlotte County reported three more deaths. Collier County also reported three new deaths. Manatee County reported two more deaths.

Dixie County reported one new death as did Hendry County, Lee County, Orange County, Pasco County, Pinellas County, Putnam County, Sarasota County, St. Lucie County and Washington County.

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A total of 29,807 cases — or some 56 percent of Florida's total confirmed cases — were in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties.

Miami-Dade reported 17,396 confirmed cases of the virus as of Thursday. Nearby Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale, reported 6,870 cases. Palm Beach County, which includes West Palm Beach, reported 5,541 cases.

Florida had a 5.6 percent positive test rate for the virus based on a total of 953,321 tests that had been administered as of Thursday. The number of hospitalizations in Florida increased to 9,795 from 9,639 a day earlier.

Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, reported 2,019 cases as of Thursday. Orange County, which includes Orlando, reported 1,902cases.

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 Thursday are shown in bold.

Here is the most recent data: