NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 4,884, 48 more since yesterday morning. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 665.
The total number of COVID-19 -related deaths in Okaloosa County is 102, no change.
Statewide, 2,847 new cases were reported since yesterday.
The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 295, no change. On Thursday, there were 16 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals; four in ICU beds.
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According to the state DOH, yesterday there were 615 tests returned in Okaloosa with 47 positives. The daily positivity rate was 7.64 percent.
Okaloosa County’s rolling seven-day positivity rate is 6.42 percent, which is almost two points, or 35 percent higher than the state’s rolling average of 4.75 percent.
Okaloosa’s weekly positivity rate was 6.15 percent for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 19. It was 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, 1,602, 12 since yesterday
- Destin, 628, three since yesterday
- Niceville, 610, four since yesterday
- Crestview, 992, nine since yesterday
- Shalimar, 233, no change
- Mary Esther, 244, one since yesterday
- Eglin AFB, 72, three since yesterday
- Laurel Hill, 48, one since yesterday
- Baker, 94, one since yesterday
- Holt, 36, one since yesterday
- Valparaiso, 55, no change
- Hurlburt Field, 9, no change
- Milligan, 2, no change
- Cinco Bayou, 34, no change
- Duke Field, 1, no change
- Missing, 184, 11 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/
