October 18 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 5,793, 37 since yesterday. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 781.

The FDOH reports the total number of COVID-19 -related deaths in Okaloosa County is 128, no change.

Statewide, 3,449 new cases were reported today.

The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 317, no change. The FDOH reports today there are 17 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals.

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Okaloosa County School District suffers its worst week yet for transmission of COVID-19

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 led to the cancellation of this week’s high school football games.

According to the FDOH, there were 523 tests returned yesterday in Okaloosa with 39 positives. The daily positivity rate is 7.46 percent, down from 14.66 percent the previous day.

Okaloosa’s weekly positivity rate was 9.91 percent for the week ending Oct. 17, up from 7.79 percent the previous week, according to the FDOH.

Florida’s weekly rate is 12.7 percent (7-day moving average) according to Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center data

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, 1,865, seven since yesterday
• Destin, 719, three since yesterday
• Niceville, 717, three since yesterday
• Crestview, 1,144, nine since yesterday
• Shalimar, 267, two since yesterday
• Mary Esther, 279, two since yesterday
• Eglin AFB, 85, one since yesterday
• Laurel Hill, 54, no change
• Baker, 121, two since yesterday
• Holt, 41, no change
• Valparaiso, 64, one since yesterday
• Hurlburt Field, 11, no change
• Milligan, 2, no change
• Cinco Bayou, 35, no change
• Duke Field, 1, no change
• Missing, 340, six since yesterday

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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