TALLAHASSEE – The variety of Florida residents testing constructive for COVID-19 dropped throughout the previous two weeks, whereas pandemic deaths are nearing 80,000, in accordance with information launched Friday by the state Department of Health.
The information confirmed that 43,703 folks examined constructive for COVID-19 from Aug. 19 by way of Thursday, after 45,416 examined constructive the earlier week.
Those had been the primary weeks in additional than two months that new cases totaled fewer than 50,000.
Meanwhile, the brand new information confirmed that not less than 79,573 Florida residents have died of COVID-19 for the reason that pandemic began in early 2020.
That was up from a complete of 78,559 in a report launched on Aug. 12.
Because of lags in reporting, it’s unclear when the extra deaths occurred.
