NICEVILLE, Fla — After failing to issue a COVID-19 report yesterday—reportedly due to a data issue with a lab—the Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 5,380, 57 since Friday. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 744.
The DOH reports today the total number of COVID-19 -related deaths in Okaloosa County is 122, no change.
Statewide, 5,570 new cases were reported today with 178 new deaths.
The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 313, one since Friday. The FDOH reports today there are 12 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals.
According to the FDOH, there were 630 tests returned since Friday in Okaloosa with 35 positives. The daily positivity rate is calculated at 5.56 percent. The state’s positivity rate reportedly was 3.45 percent.
Okaloosa’s weekly positivity rate was 7.79 percent for the week ending Oct. 10, down from 8.17 percent the previous week. The state’s weekly positivity rate was 4.52 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, 1,695, 10 since Friday
- Destin, 679, five since Friday
- Niceville, 683, nine since Friday
- Crestview, 1,107, 14 since Friday
- Shalimar, 256, four since Friday
- Mary Esther, 257, one since Friday
- Eglin AFB, 81, no change
- Laurel Hill, 52, three since Friday
- Baker, 111, one since Friday
- Holt, 40, no change
- Valparaiso, 61, no change
- Hurlburt Field, 11, no change
- Milligan, 2, no change
- Cinco Bayou, 34, no change
- Duke Field, 1, no change
- Missing, 267, 10 since Friday
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/
