NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 3,955, 34 more since yesterday morning. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 498.
The number of COVID-19 deaths in Okaloosa County is 71, no change.
Statewide, 2,974 new cases were reported since yesterday.
The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 224, no change since yesterday.
Currently, there are 35 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals; 11 in ICU beds.
Yesterday, there were 394 tests returned in Okaloosa with 34 positives. The daily positivity rate was 8.63 percent.
Okaloosa’s weekly positivity rate for the week ending yesterday, August 16-22, is 8.93 percent. The positivity rate was 8.61 percent for the previous week, August 9-15.
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, 1,404, nine more since yesterday
- Destin, 524, three more since yesterday
- Niceville, 457, six more since yesterday
- Crestview, 809, six more since yesterday
- Shalimar, 194, one more since yesterday
- Mary Esther, 210, two more since yesterday
- Eglin AFB, 32, no change
- Laurel Hill, 38, two more since yesterday
- Baker, 79, one more since yesterday
- Holt, 28, two more since yesterday
- Valparaiso, 41, no change
- Hurlburt Field, 3, no change
- Milligan, 2, no change
- Cinco Bayou, 3
- Missing, 103, two more 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/
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