October 16 COVID-19 report for Okaloosa, Niceville

NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 5,706, 61 since yesterday. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 772.

The DOH reports the total number of COVID-19 -related deaths in Okaloosa County is 127, no change.

Statewide, 3,449 new cases were reported today, continuing Florida’s upward trend.

The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 316, no change. The FDOH reports today there are 15 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals.

According to Health Department Director Dr. Karen Chapman, week six of school saw the most students (45) and staff (18) cases of COVID-19 since school started. Chapman said the 63 cases resulted in 705 students and 38 teachers being placed in quarantine. COVID-19 cases and quarantines have led to the cancellation of this week’s high school football games.

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According to the FDOH, there were 416 tests returned since Friday in Okaloosa with 61 positives. The daily positivity rate is calculated at 14.66 percent, up from 9.34 percent yesterday and more than triple the state’s daily positivity rate of 4.36 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 reported its weekly positivity rate at 4.52 percent; Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center reports Florida’s weekly rate to be 12.17 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, 1,846. 14 since yesterday
• Destin, 708, one since yesterday
• Niceville, 709, 10 since yesterday
• Crestview, 1,130, three since yesterday
• Shalimar, 265, one since yesterday
• Mary Esther, 272, nine since yesterday
• Eglin AFB, 84, no change
• Laurel Hill, 54, no change
• Baker, 115, one since yesterday
• Holt, 41, no change
• Valparaiso, 63, one since yesterday
• Hurlburt Field, 11, no change
• Milligan, 2, no change
• Cinco Bayou, 35, no change
• Duke Field, 1, no change
• Missing, 323, 21 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:

• The state of Florida’s daily COVID-19 data reports
• The Florida Department of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard
• Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 resource center for Florida
• The COVID Track Project’s data for Florida