Florida Coronavirus Update: 1,270 New Cases

TALLAHASSEE, FL — Florida health officials reported 1,270 new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday and 97 new hospitalizations over the previous 24-hour period.

With the new cases, Florida now has a total of 62,758 confirmed coronavirus cases throughout the state. The state's death toll rose to 2,688 from 2,660 deaths a day earlier.

Eleven Florida counties reported 28 new deaths Saturday compared to 53 new deaths Friday, 42 new deaths on Thursday, 35 new deaths Wednesday, 71 new deaths Tuesday, seven on Monday, two on Sunday and 34 deaths last Saturday.

Miami-Dade reported five new deaths Saturday. Palm Beach County reported three new deaths. Broward County reported seven new deaths.

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Lee County reported three new deaths. Hillsborough County reported two new deaths as did Orange County and Polk County.

Collier County reported one new death as did Duval County, Hendry County and Washington County.

Miami-Dade reported 19,299 confirmed cases of the virus Saturday. Nearby Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale, reported 7,690 cases. Palm Beach County, which includes West Palm Beach, reported 7,074 cases.

Florida had a 5.3 percent positive test rate for the virus based on a total of 1,175,106 tests that had been administered as of Saturday. The number of hospitalizations in Florida increased to 10,891 from 10,794 a day earlier.

Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, reported 2,643 cases. Orange County, which includes Orlando, reported 2,256 cases.

In an attempt to provide as much information to our readers as possible, Patch is publishing the following county-by-county breakdown of the coronavirus cases in Florida's 67 counties, along with the median age of patients, the number of hospital cases by county and the number of deaths.

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Patch updates this chart once each day based on data provided by the Florida Department of Health. The counties that reported new deaths on Saturday are shown in bold.

Here is the most recent data: