New COVID-19 cases in Florida and Miami-Dade lowest since June, positive test rates fall

Sunday’s COVID-19 dashboard update from the Florida Department of Health featured the lowest new case numbers for Florida and Miami-Dade since June.

Florida had 3,779 new cases, 900 of which came from Miami-Dade, the county with the most COVID-19 cases and deaths, by far.

Florida’s average daily positive test rate for the last seven days reported is 9.1, edging down from 9.7 from the previous week.

For the novel coronavirus pandemic, Florida’s seen 573,416 cases and 9,587 deaths after another 107 deaths reported Sunday.

Because there tends to be less data collection and entry over the weekend, Sunday case update numbers have been lower than weekdays. Even so, this would be the lowest for the state and Miami-Dade on a Sunday since June 21, 3,494 and 710, respectively.

South Florida Counties

Note: The Florida Department of Health says that each county’s percent positivity for new cases (people who tested positive for the first time) does not include retests (people who have tested positive once and are being tested for a second time.)

▪ As stated above, Miami-Dade added 900 cases, bringing the total pandemic total to 145,307. Another 10 deaths put that total at 2,057 cases.

Saturday’s positive test rate, according to the state’s daily county-by-county report, was 10.3%, the lowest in the last two weeks. The average daily positive test rate slid from 13.6% over the last seven days to 12.5% for the previous week. The average positive test rate for the last two weeks is 12.67%.

▪ Another 336 cases and 40 deaths put Broward at 66,447 and 980, respectively, for the pandemic. The positive test rate for the day was 8.4%. Though that’s a rise from the previous two days, the average daily positive test rate fell this week from 9.1% to 8.6%.

▪ Palm Beach’s 227 new cases and three deaths bring its totals to 39,129 and 992. The average daily positive test reate fell from 8.7% to 7.0%.

▪ Monroe County reported 11 new cases (1,633) and no new deaths (13).

Current Hospitalizations

The state’s Agency for Health Care Administration reported 5,732 current hospitalizations in Florida Sunday, up 23 from Saturday, but well down from the 8,079 cases two weeks ago.

Miami-Dade added 17 hospitalizations (1,156) and Broward added 15 (740). Palm Beach (360) and Monroe (10) remained the same.

Sunday’s Miami-Dade Moving to a New Normal Dashboard reported 1,310 current hospitalizations, the 12th consecutive day of a decrease by the county’s count.

Florida’s current hospitalization data does not always match the hospitalization data reported in Miami-Dade’s dashboard, which has yet to update Sunday. Officials say this could be for a number of reasons including the frequency of daily updates.

Testing

Thus far, 4,239,309 have been tested in Florida with a 13.5% positive hit rate.

Sunday, the state’s dashboard reported the results of 50,456 tests, with a 7.73% positive test rate.

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