NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports today the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 6,244, 55 since yesterday. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 850.
Statewide, 4,298 new cases were reported today.
The DOH reports the total number of COVID-19 -related deaths in Okaloosa County is 130, no change.
The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is reported to be 333, three since yesterday. The FDOH reports today there are 25 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals.
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According to the FDOH, there were 423 tests returned yesterday in Okaloosa with 55 positives. The daily positivity rate is 13 percent, up from12.36 percent the previous day.
Okaloosa’s weekly positivity rate is 9.59 percent for the week ending Oct. 24, down from 9.91 percent the previous week, according to the FDOH.
Florida’s current weekly positivity rate is 10.3 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, 1,972, 14 since yesterday
- Destin, 764, five since yesterday
- Niceville, 780, 17 since yesterday
- Crestview, 1,223, nine since yesterday
- Shalimar, 280, two since yesterday
- Mary Esther, 301, one since yesterday
- Eglin AFB, 89, no change
- Laurel Hill, 61, no change
- Baker, 129, one since yesterday
- Holt, 43, no change
- Valparaiso, 70, one since yesterday
- Hurlburt Field, 12, no change
- Milligan, 2, no change
- Cinco Bayou, 35, no change
- Duke Field, 1, no change
- Missing, 425, five 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
