October 19 COVID-19 report for Okaloosa includes another death

NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 5,820, 27 since yesterday morning. The death toll in Okaloosa now is 129, one more death reported since yesterday.

Statewide, 1,707 new cases were reported since yesterday.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 788.

The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 319, two since yesterday. The FDOH reports there currently are 19 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals.

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According to the FDOH, there were 269 tests returned yesterday in Okaloosa with 27 positives. The daily positivity rate is 10.04 percent, up from 9.15 percent yesterday.

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 current weekly positivity rate is 11.9 percent (7-day moving average) according to Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center data.

Currently, Florida is testing 1.1 people in 1,000, ranking it 48^th in the U.S. for testing according to data provided by Johns Hopkins.

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, 1,869, four since yesterday
• Destin, 722, three since yesterday
• Niceville, 724, seven since yesterday
• Crestview, 1,148, four since yesterday
• Shalimar, 268, one since yesterday
• Mary Esther, 281, two since yesterday
• Eglin AFB, 85, no change
• Laurel Hill, 55, one since yesterday
• Baker, 120, one less since yesterday
• Holt, 41, no change
• Valparaiso, 64, no change
• Hurlburt Field, 11, no change
• Milligan, 2, no change
• Cinco Bayou, 35, no change
• Duke Field, 1, no change
• Missing, 346, 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