Florida reports 10,181 new positive cases of COVID-19; now over 300,000 total

Jul 15, 2020 11:15 am

The Florida Department of Health reported 10,181 new cases to the Florida COVID-19 Dashboard, bringing the total positive test count to 301,810 cases as of the July 14th report. It is the fifth day out of the last six that 10,000 or more cases were reported.

The FDOH also reported 80,389 new tests from Tuesday. The positive rate was 13.59% 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
July 14: 9,194
July 15: 10,181

Statewide hospitalizations are at 19,334 an increase of 453. The state is now releasing numbers on currently hospitalized patients, and as of 10:15 a.m. today, 8,305 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 as their primary diagnosis statewide.

4,521 people have died from the virus in Florida, an increase of 112 over the day before. This is the second straight day that over 100 deaths were reported, following the highest single-day of deaths (132) reported by the DOH since the pandemic began on Tuesday.

Here are the local figures for total positive tests:

Alachua County is at 2322 – up 64 from yesterday.
Gilchrist County is at 169 – up 13 from yesterday
Columbia County is at 929 – up 305 from yesterday.
Levy County is at 296 – up 23 from yesterday.
Bradford County is at 161 – up 16 from yesterday.

In Alachua County towns:

Alachua/LaCrosse/Worthington Springs 128 – up 4 from yesterday.
Archer 44 – up 3 from yesterday.
Hawthorne 25 – up 3 from yesterday.
High Springs 39 – up 1 from yesterday.
Micanopy 14 – up 2 from yesterday.
Newberry 95 – up 1 from yesterday.
Waldo 9 – up 1 from yesterday