Florida COVID update: State passes 5 million cases -- two weeks ago, there were 4 million
Florida now has more than five million COVID-19 cases as the state reported 49,339 cases and six new deaths Friday, according to Saturday’s report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
In the past seven days, the state has added 66 deaths and 58,406 cases per day on average, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.
It took a little over two weeks for Florida to go from a case toll of four million to more than five million. The state had surpassed four million cases on Dec. 29. This is the quickest the state has seen an increase this large. It took about four months for Florida to go from three million cases, in mid-August, to four million, and about five months to go from two million cases, in March, to three million.
New cases have been on a downward trend since the state reported 77,156 on January 8, Florida’s single-day increase record.
In all, Florida has recorded at least 5,041,918 confirmed COVID cases and 62,819 deaths.
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About a quarter of the state's population have contracted COVID...
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