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LATEST LOCAL COVID-19 UPDATES
Your Sunday Update: Florida Reports Largest Single Day Increase In Cases; More Than 7,000 People Hospitalized With COVID-19; Trump Aides & Allies Question The Convention
Florida reports largest, single-day increase in Covid cases The Associated Press Florida on Sunday reported the largest single-day increase ...
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Your Friday Update: Only 15 Percent of Adult ICU Beds Available in Florida, ACHA Says 7,000 Floridians Hospitalized With Coronavirus, State Adds More than 11,000 New Cases, Fans Prepare to Return to Disney World
WMFE is following the latest stories from Central Florida and around the state on the coronavirus pandemic ...
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MAP: Track Florida Cases Of COVID-19 In Real Time
Researchers are releasing a map that shows COVID-19 cases by county across Florida ...
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Your Sunday Update: Florida Reports Largest Single Day Increase In Cases; More Than 7,000 People Hospitalized With COVID-19; Trump Aides & Allies Question The Convention
Florida reports largest, single-day increase in Covid cases The Associated Press Florida on Sunday reported the largest single-day increase in positive coronavirus cases in ...
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Your Saturday Update: Grim Record For Florida’s COVID-19 Death Rate As New Daily Cases Top 10K, Disney World Reopens Amid Coronavirus Surges, Gov. DeSantis Declares “Status Quo” In Florida, Some Hospitals Seeing Younger & Sicker Patients
Grim Record For Florida Coronavirus Deaths This Week by Associated Press More Floridians died of coronavirus this week than in any other seven-day period. The ...
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Get Ready for Hurricane Season During a Pandemic with Orange County Sandbag, Face Mask Distribution Starting on Thursday
Orange County residents with a valid ID, and a face mask, will be able to pick up ten sandbags a-person at five parks and recreation ...
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Nation’s Pediatricians Walk Back Support For In-Person School
In a new statement made jointly with teachers unions, the American Academy of Pediatrics now says "science and community circumstances must guide decision-making." ...
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Sabatini loses case against Leon County mask ordinance
At the beginning, the Zoom hearing was marred by music, coarse language and pornography. A reporter for Politico tweeted a video of the bizarre interlude ...
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Back To School Order Raises Concerns
This week Florida’s education commissioner Richard Corcoran released an executive order telling schools that they will have to open up brick and mortar campuses five ...
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Volusia County Reports its Highest Daily Coronavirus Count As Leaders Say There’s Enough ICU Beds, Ventilators
Volusia County reported 220 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest daily count for the county since the beginning of the pandemic in mid-March ...
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DeSantis: Most Coronavirus Tests In The State Administered At OCCC, Schools Are “Low-Risk”
Gov. Ron DeSantis says more coronavirus tests have been administered at the Orange County Convention Center than anywhere else in the state. ...
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Marion County Commission candidate Craig Curry is ill with COVID-19
The former Ocala mayor and his wife, who also tested positive, have been in quarantine since the onset of symptoms. But in the days before ...
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Orange County Leaders Scold Gyms, Praise Disney as County Reports 400 New Coronavirus Cases
The Orange County Department of Health and the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation will be stepping up inspections at local gyms. ...
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Secretary of Labor Says Reopening Schools Will Help Low-Income Workers, Women Get Back on the Job
U.S Secretary of Labor Gene Scalia called schools essential businesses at a press conference with Gov. Ron DeSantis in Jacksonville on Thursday ...
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Amidst Rising Cases Nationwide, International Students Must Take One In-Person Class This Fall
International students at the University of Central Florida will be required to take in-person classes this fall in order to pursue their studies in the ...
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