NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 4,551, 49 more since yesterday morning. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 608.
Statewide, 3,650 new cases were reported since yesterday.
The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 275, three since yesterday. On Wednesday, there were 28 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals; six in ICU beds.
Okaloosa drive-thru testing schedule for Sept. 15-24
Florida bars may reopen Monday at half capacity, state says
Family, friends commemorate Fort Walton Beach mother Brandy Hearne, who died after long battle with COVID-19
Yesterday, according to the state DOH, Okaloosa’s daily positivity rate was 6.68 percent.
Okaloosa’s weekly positivity rate was 7.33 percent for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 5, down from 7.63 percent from the previous week.
Niceville.com Community Partner
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, 1,535, 13 less since yesterday
- Destin, 589, seven since yesterday
- Niceville, 559, six since yesterday
- Crestview, 913, nine since yesterday
- Shalimar, 225, one since yesterday
- Mary Esther, 234, two since yesterday
- Eglin AFB, 58, one since yesterday
- Laurel Hill, 41, one since yesterday
- Baker, 92, two since yesterday
- Holt, 33, no change
- Valparaiso, 49, no change
- Hurlburt Field, 5, no change
- Milligan, 2, no change
- Cinco Bayou, 34, 31 since yesterday
- Missing, 145, two since yesterday
Niceville.com Community Partner
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/
Niceville.com Community Partner
