NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 5,451, 40 since yesterday morning. The death toll in Okaloosa now is 124, two more deaths reported since yesterday.
Statewide, 2,725 new cases were reported since yesterday.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 751.
The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 313, no change. The FDOH reports today there are 16 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals.
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN OKALOOSA COUNTY ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL MOBILE TEST DATES
According to the FDOH, there were 495 tests returned yesterday in Okaloosa with 39 positives. The daily positivity rate is 7.88 percent, down from 9.34 percent yesterday. The state’s daily positivity rate is 4.96 percent, up from 4.25 percent yesterday.
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, 1,713, 10 since yesterday
- Destin, 693, 10 since yesterday
- Niceville, 689, two since yesterday
- Crestview, 1,117, four since yesterday
- Shalimar, 259, three since yesterday
- Mary Esther, 260, no change
- Eglin AFB, 82, no change
- Laurel Hill, 54, two since yesterday
- Baker, 112, one since yesterday
- Holt, 41, no change
- Valparaiso, 62, one since yesterday
- Hurlburt Field, 11, no change
- Milligan, 2, no change
- Cinco Bayou, 34, no change
- Duke Field, 1, no change
- Missing, 278, 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.
Want more info and data? Get it here:
https://floridacovidaction.com/
https://www.floridadisaster.org/covid19/
