Coronavirus in Florida: State reports another 9,594 COVID-19 cases
A total of 1,667,763 people in Florida have tested positive for coronavirus since the pandemic began.
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Crowds at Universal Orlando Resort s CityWalk shopping and entertainment district in Orlando, Fla., Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Author: 10 Tampa Bay Updated: 3:31 PM EST January 26, 2021
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Florida added 9,594 new coronavirus cases for Jan. 25, according to the Department of Health s latest report.
A total of 1,667,763 people in Florida have tested positive for coronavirus since the pandemic began.
Last month, Florida became the third state to report more than 1 million cases, after California and Texas. Florida alone added 315,149 new cases of COVID-19 in December roughly 6,000 fewer cases than the peak in July.
Understanding the numbers
Since mid-July, daily reported COVID-19 cases in Florida remained under 10,000. And, between Sept. 1 and Oct. 16, daily reported cases stayed below 4,000.
That changed on
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highest single-day case number Florida has reported so far is 19,816 for Jan. 6. The report released on Jan. 2 of 31,518 newly-reported cases is higher, but that reported combined updates for Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.
The
738, confirmed on Sept. 28.
On Oct. 30, Florida became the third state to cross the 800,000 reported COVID-19 cases mark. Then on Dec. 1,
Florida became the third state to surpass 1 million confirmed cases. As of Jan. 22, California and Texas have 3.1 and 2.2 million cases, respectively, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.
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