NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 5,323, 58 since yesterday. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 735.
The DOH reports today the total number of COVID-19 -related deaths in Okaloosa County is 122, no change.
Statewide, 2,908 new cases were reported since yesterday.
The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 312, three since yesterday. On Wednesday, there were 17 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals; five in ICU beds.
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN OKALOOSA COUNTY ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL MOBILE TEST DATES
According to the state DOH, yesterday there were 541 tests returned in Okaloosa with 58 positives. The daily positivity rate was 10.72 percent, up from 5.81 percent the previous day. The state’s positivity rate was 4.12 percent yesterday.
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, 1,685, 12 since yesterday
- Destin, 674, five since yesterday
- Niceville, 674, five since yesterday
- Crestview, 1,093, 11 since yesterday
- Shalimar, 252, three since yesterday
- Mary Esther, 256, three since yesterday
- Eglin AFB, 81, no change
- Laurel Hill, 49, no change
- Baker, 110, four since yesterday
- Holt, 40, no change
- Valparaiso, 61, one since yesterday
- Hurlburt Field, 11, no change
- Milligan, 2, no change
- Cinco Bayou, 34, no change
- Duke Field, 1, no change
- Missing, 257, 15 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/
