Lake County resident among Florida's latest COVID-related deaths
The death raised the area death toll related to COVID-19 to 457, including 335 in Lake County and 122 in Sumter. Details about the local fatality were not immediately available due to the state’s recent transition to a new method of reporting deaths on the DOH website. DOH offices in Tallahassee and in Lake County have not responded to emails seeking information. In addition, 223 new confirmed cases of the potentially deadly coronavirus were reported Monday in Lake and Sumter counties — 169 in Lake County and 54 in Sumter. Since March, when the DOH began issuing daily updates on the sprea...