NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 4,502, 41 more since yesterday morning. The death toll in Okaloosa now is 94, four more deaths reported since yesterday.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 602.
Statewide, 2,583 new cases were reported since yesterday.
The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 272, three more since yesterday. On Wednesday, there were 28 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals; six in ICU beds.
Yesterday’s daily positivity rate in Okaloosa was 7.99 percent.
Okaloosa drive-thru testing schedule for Sept. 15-24
Okaloosa’s weekly positivity rate for the week ending Saturday, August 29 was 7.63 percent. It was 8.93 percent the previous week and 8.61 percent for the week before that, August 9-15.
On Tuesday, Okaloosa County Department of Health Director Dr. Karen Chapman reported that 27 cases of COVID-19 had been identified within the Okaloosa County School District: 18 students and 9 members of staff. The cases have led to 90 people being quarantined.
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, 1,548, 13 since yesterday
- Destin, 582, two since yesterday
- Niceville, 553, 10 since yesterday
- Crestview, 904, five since yesterday
- Shalimar, 224, five since yesterday
- Mary Esther, 232, three since yesterday
- Eglin AFB, 57, two since yesterday
- Laurel Hill, 40, no change
- Baker, 90, one since yesterday
- Holt, 33, no change
- Valparaiso, 49, one since yesterday
- Hurlburt Field, 5, no change
- Milligan, 2, no change
- Cinco Bayou, 3, no change
- Homeless, 1, no change
- Missing, 143, one 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/
