JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Governmental activities typically slow down for the holiday break this week, but there’s no let-up to the bad news coming out of the Florida Department of Health, which Wednesday announced another 121 people in the state have died with COVID-19. Since the pandemic made it to Florida in March 21,173 residents and visitors to the state have died of the virus.
Five of those deaths were in Jacksonville, four were in Columbia County and two were in Putnam County.
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Another 11,384 people in the state were diagnosed with the disease based on the most recent data on testing, which is only slightly above Florida’s daily average over the last week. Of people tested for the virus Monday, 8.62% tested positive.
Duval County showed another 676 cases, St. Johns had 159 additional cases, Clay County added 123 cases and Nassau County had 78 more. All four metro Jacksonville counties had positivity rates above 10%.
Florida and Duval County daily COVID-19 cases since June 1
Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration dashboard shows 5,590 people hospitalized in the state Wednesday afternoon. As of 3 p.m., just under 20% of intensive care beds in the state were available. Nassau and Columbia counties had no ICU beds available on Wednesday afternoon. Alachua County’s availability was about 11%, Clay County’s was about 16%. UF Health in Jacksonville Downtown campus had only 8% of its ICU beds available, but Duval County other hospitals had between availability ranging from 17-50%.
As of Wednesday morning, FDOH reported that 68,133 people in the state have received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine since it first reached the state Dec. 14. Of those, 5,269 were administered in Duval County, 1,274 in St. Johns County and 494 in Clay County.