NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 5,206, 25 since yesterday. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 717.
The DOH reports today the total number of COVID-19 -related deaths in Okaloosa County is 117, no change.
Statewide, 2,251 new cases were reported since yesterday.
The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 306, one since yesterday. On Friday, there were 19 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals; six in ICU beds.
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN OKALOOSA COUNTY ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL MOBILE TEST DATES
According to the state DOH, yesterday there were 310 tests returned in Okaloosa with 25 positives. The daily positivity rate was 8.06 percent, up from 1.97 percent the previous day.
Okaloosa’s weekly positivity rate was 8.17 percent for the week ending Oct. 3, slightly up from 8.0 percent the previous week.
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, 1,669, four since yesterday
- Destin, 658, one since yesterday
- Niceville, 657, three since yesterday
- Crestview, 1,069, seven since yesterday
- Shalimar, 247, no change
- Mary Esther, 250, no change
- Eglin AFB, 81, two since yesterday
- Laurel Hill, 49, no change
- Baker, 105, two since yesterday
- Holt, 39, one since yesterday
- Valparaiso, 60, no change
- Hurlburt Field, 9, no change
- Milligan, 2, no change
- Cinco Bayou, 34, no change
- Duke Field, 1, no change
- Missing, 233, four 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/
