NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 5,232, 26 since yesterday morning. The death toll in Okaloosa now is 118, one more death reported since yesterday.
Statewide, 2,582 new cases were reported since yesterday.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 723.
The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 308, two since yesterday.
According to the state DOH, yesterday there were 338 tests returned in Okaloosa with 28 positives. The daily positivity rate was 8.28 percent, up from 8.06 percent from the previous day and more than twice the state average of 4.04 percent for the day.
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN OKALOOSA COUNTY ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL MOBILE TEST DATES
Okaloosa’s weekly positivity rate was 8.17 percent for the week ending Oct. 3, slightly up from 8.0 percent the previous week. The state’s positivity rate for the week was 4.66 percent
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, 1,667, two less since yesterday
- Destin, 664, six since yesterday
- Niceville, 663, six since yesterday
- Crestview, 1,078, nine since yesterday
- Shalimar, 247, no change
- Mary Esther, 250, no change
- Eglin AFB, 81, no change
- Laurel Hill, 49, no change
- Baker, 106, one since yesterday
- Holt, 40, one since yesterday
- Valparaiso, 60, no change
- Hurlburt Field, 9, no change
- Milligan, 2, no change
- Cinco Bayou, 34, no change
- Duke Field, 1, no change
- Missing, 238, five 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/
