Florida Surpasses 200,000 Coronavirus Cases

TALLAHASSEE, FL — Fueled by multiple one-day spikes, including more than 11,000 new cases reported on the Fourth of July, Florida on Sunday surpassed 200,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the state.

Florida health officials reported 10,059 new cases of the virus Sunday after the state set another all-time record of 11,458 cases a day earlier and three days after Thursday's previous one-day record of more than 10,000 new cases.

Florida had a 9.1 percent positive test rate for the virus Sunday as the number of tests administered in the state reached 2,202,095. The percentage of positive cases has been increasing for about three weeks, which has been a particular concern for areas like Miami-Dade County.

"We have seen a sharp rise in the positivity rate," Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez said on Sunday's "Face The Nation" program on CBS. "We had it down to about 8 percent of the people getting tested were showing up positive. Now over 20 percent are showing up positive. That's the problem for us."

The mayor said his county, which includes Miami and Miami Beach, has seen an increase in young people who test positive.

"We just have more people that are being positive. The more you have at the end, you are going to have more people pass away at the end, unfortunately, because it's just a question of numbers," Gimenez said. "We have seen an increase in the number of hospitalizations. We have seen an increase in the number of ICUs and also an increase in the number of ventilations."

The state's total positive cases rose to 200,111 from 190,052 over the previous 24-hour period as South Florida beaches remained shuttered for the the Fourth of July weekend in an attempt to slow the spread of the deadly virus.

Miami-Dade County is considered the epicenter of Florida's outbreak along with nearby Broward and Palm Beach counties but other Florida counties have been accounting for a greater share of cases in recent days.

Florida's largest public health system, Miami-based Jackson Health, said it will limit inpatient surgeries and procedures to emergency and urgent cases starting Monday to make sure beds are available for seriously ill patients, including coronavirus patients. Many of the new positive cases in the state are of people between 33 to 37.

Jackson Health CEO Carlos A. Migoya said on WPLG TV's "This Week In South Florida Sunday that he does not believe Florida has seen its peak cases yet.

"We're not on the downside yet," he said. "We will probably see the peak around the end of July, first week of August."

Florida's has set a string of one-day records over the past three weeks while the disease also has taken its youngest victim in the state, an 11-year-old boy with special needs from Miami-Dade County.

State officials suspended the consumption of on-premises alcohol at bars, and a number of Florida counties and municipalities imposed mandatory mask orders. Miami-Dade County also imposed a curfew to limit the number of people on the streets at night.

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The total number of deaths from the new coronavirus in Florida rose to 3,702 from 3,684 a day earlier. State officials also reported another 101 deaths in Florida involving non-Florida residents.

Five Florida counties reported 28 new deaths Sunday. That compares with 18 new deaths Saturday, 64 new deaths Friday, 65 new deaths Thursday, 46 new deaths Wednesday, 58 new deaths Tuesday, 28 deaths Monday and 29 new deaths last Sunday.

Miami-Dade County reported five new deaths. Broward County reported three new deaths. Palm Beach County reported one new death.

Pinellas County reported 14 new deaths, more than any other county. Lee County reported three new deaths. Indian River County reported one new death as did Pasco County,

Health officials reported 15,895 hospitalizations, up from 15,735 over the previous 24-hour period. That represents an increase of 150 new hospitalizations.

Miami-Dade reported 47,011 cases of the virus Sunday. Nearby Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale, reported 21,239 cases. Palm Beach County, which includes Palm Beach and West Palm, reported 16,836 cases.

Those three counties account for 85,086 cases, or about 42 percent of the state's total.

Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, reported 14,336 cases. Orange County, which includes Orlando, reported 14,032 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 Sunday are shown in bold.

Here is the most recent data: