NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 4,055, 35 more since yesterday morning. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 525.
The number of COVID-19 deaths in Okaloosa County is 75, no change.
Statewide, 3,277 new cases were reported since yesterday.
The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 237, one more since yesterday. On Wednesday, it was reported there were 36 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals; six in ICU beds.
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Yesterday, there were 424 tests returned in Okaloosa with 34 positives. The daily positivity rate was 8.02 percent.
Okaloosa’s weekly positivity rate for the week August 16-22, was 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, 1,426, nine more since yesterday
- Destin, 534, two more since yesterday
- Niceville, 484, 10 more since yesterday
- Crestview, 829, six more since yesterday
- Shalimar, 198, two more since yesterday
- Mary Esther, 213, one more since yesterday
- Eglin AFB, 36, three more since yesterday
- Laurel Hill, 38, no change
- Baker, 82, no change
- Holt, 28, no change
- Valparaiso, 41, no change
- Hurlburt Field, 3, no change
- Milligan, 2, no change
- Cinco Bayou, 3, no change
- Missing, 109, 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/
