NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 5,118, 36 since yesterday. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 704.
Niceville now has surpassed Destin in its total number of confirmed cases with 645 compared to Destin’s 642.
The total number of COVID-19 -related deaths in Okaloosa County is 116, no change.
Statewide, 2,660 new cases were reported since yesterday.
The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 303, one since yesterday. On Wednesday, there were 15 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals; four in ICU beds.
According to the state DOH, yesterday there were 460 tests returned in Okaloosa with 36 positives. The daily positivity rate was 7.83 percent, down from 10.04 percent yesterday.
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, 1,649, six since yesterday
- Destin, 642, two since yesterday
- Niceville, 645, five since yesterday
- Crestview, 1,051, 12 since yesterday
- Shalimar, 246, two since yesterday
- Mary Esther, 250, no change
- Eglin AFB, 78, three since yesterday
- Laurel Hill, 49, one less since yesterday
- Baker, 100, one since yesterday
- Holt, 38, no change
- Valparaiso, 59, one since yesterday
- Hurlburt Field, 9, no change
- Milligan, 2, no change
- Cinco Bayou, 34, no change
- Duke Field, 1, no change
- Missing, 222, three 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.
Want more info and data? Get it here:
https://floridacovidaction.com/
https://www.floridadisaster.org/covid19/
