NICEVILLE, Fla — The Florida Department of Health reports this morning the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Okaloosa County is 5,036, 26 since yesterday morning. The death toll in Okaloosa now is 115, two more deaths reported since yesterday.
Statewide, 1,948 new cases were reported since yesterday.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Niceville and Valparaiso is 688, three since yesterday.
The number of cumulative hospitalizations related to coronavirus in Okaloosa is 301, four since yesterday. On Monday, there were 21 COVID-19 patients in Okaloosa County hospitals; four in ICU beds.
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According to the state DOH, yesterday there were 249 tests returned in Okaloosa with 27 positives. The daily positivity rate was 10.84 percent, up from 5.33 percent the previous day.
Okaloosa’s weekly positivity rate was 8.0 percent for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 26. It was 6.15 percent for the week ending Sept. 19, 8.3 percent for the week ending Sept. 12, and 7.33 for the week ending Sept. 5.
Okaloosa County’s weekly positivity rate of eight percent is about 65 percent higher than the state average of 4.8 percent.
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, 1,633, four since yesterday
- Destin, 636, two since yesterday
- Niceville, 631, three since yesterday
- Crestview, 1,031, seven since yesterday
- Shalimar, 242, one since yesterday
- Mary Esther, 248, one since yesterday
- Eglin AFB, 75, two since yesterday
- Laurel Hill, 48, no change
- Baker, 98, one since yesterday
- Holt, 38, no change
- Valparaiso, 57, no change
- Hurlburt Field, 9, no change
- Milligan, 2, no change
- Cinco Bayou, 34, no change
- Duke Field, 1, no change
- Missing, 212, 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.
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https://floridacovidaction.com/
https://www.floridadisaster.org/covid19/
