Florida goes over 10,000 new COVID-19 positive cases for the fourth straight day

Jul 13, 2020 11:00 am

The Florida Department of Health reported 12,624 new cases to the Florida COVID-19 Dashboard, bringing the total positive test count to 282,435 cases as of the July 12th report.

It was the fourth straight day Florida has reported new positive cases of over 10,000.

The FDOH also reported 110,737 new tests from Sunday. The positive rate was 11.4% of the total, according to the report.

Here is a breakdown of the new coronavirus cases reported by the state each day for all of July:

July 1: 6,535
July 2: 10,109
July 3: 9,488
July 4: 11,455
July 5: 10,059
July 6: 6,336
July 7: 7,347
July 8: 9,989
July 9: 8,935
July 10: 11,433
July 11: 10,360
July 12: 15,300
July 13: 12,624

Statewide hospitalizations are at 18,498 an increase of 227.

4,277 people have died from the virus in Florida, an increase of 35 over the day before.

Here are the local figures for total positive tests:

Alachua County is at 2173 – up 75 from yesterday.
Gilchrist County is at 143 – up 8 from yesterday
Columbia County is at 589 – up 114 from yesterday.
Levy County is at 273 – down 1 from yesterday.
Bradford County is at 144 – up 11 from yesterday.

In Alachua County towns:

Alachua/LaCrosse/Worthington Springs 116 – up 1 from yesterday.
Archer 40 – up 3 from yesterday.
Hawthorne 21 – no change from yesterday.
High Springs 38 – up 2 from yesterday.
Micanopy 12 – no change from yesterday.
Newberry 91 – up 5 from yesterday.
Waldo 8 – no change from yesterday.