NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 5,082, 46 since yesterday morning. The death toll in Okaloosa now is 116, one more death reported since yesterday.
Statewide, 2,628 new cases were reported since yesterday.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 698, 10 since yesterday.
The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 302, one since yesterday. On Tuesday, there were 20 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals; three in ICU beds.
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According to the state DOH, yesterday there were 448 tests returned in Okaloosa with 45 positives. The daily positivity rate was 10.04 percent, slightly down from the previous day’s rate of 10.84 percent.
Okaloosa’s weekly positivity rate was 8.0 percent for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 26. It was 6.15 percent for the week ending Sept. 19, 8.3 percent for the week ending Sept. 12, and 7.33 for the week ending Sept. 5.
Here’s the latest breakdown by city in Okaloosa (note that the city is not always reported as part of the initial notification and may be missing while the case is being investigated):
- Fort Walton Beach, 1,643, 10 since yesterday
- Destin, 640, four since yesterday
- Niceville, 640, nine since yesterday
- Crestview, 1,039, eight since yesterday
- Shalimar, 244, two since yesterday
- Mary Esther, 250, two since yesterday
- Eglin AFB, 75, no change
- Laurel Hill, 50, two since yesterday
- Baker, 99, one since yesterday
- Holt, 38, no change
- Valparaiso, 58, one since yesterday
- Hurlburt Field, 9, no change
- Milligan, 2, no change
- Cinco Bayou, 34, no change
- Duke Field, 1, no change
- Missing, 219, seven since yesterday
Florida does not publish data about deaths for persons under 18. Florida also does not publish testing, case or condition data for people in county/local jails, state prisons, migrant communities, or cumulative totals for testing and cases in long-term care facilities, probable cases and deaths before testing was available, or non-resident data at the zip code or city level.
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https://floridacovidaction.com/
https://www.floridadisaster.org/covid19/