Editor s note: This story was updated Tuesday morning to include information from Ocala Health.
New coronavirus cases leaped in Florida in the week ending Sunday, rising 51.3% as 110,724 cases were reported. The previous week had 73,166 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Florida ranked second among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week coronavirus cases in the United States increased 53.6% from the week before, with 559,334 cases reported.
With 6.45% of the country s population, Florida had 19.8% of the country s cases in the last week. Across the country, 50 states had more cases in the latest week than they did in the week before.
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