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Cumulative Total Passes 800,000 As Florida Adds 5,000 New Cases

Photo: CDC @cdc
Photo: CDC @cdc



Cumulative total passes 800,000 as Florida adds 5,000 new cases

Matthew Peddie, WMFE

Florida added 5,444 new coronavirus cases and 73 new COVID-19 fatalities Friday. It's highest number of new cases in the past two weeks.

The state has now reported more than 800,216 cases and 16,927 deaths since March.

Orange County has had more than 46,000 cases, the most of any county in Central Florida.

The Agency for Health Care Administration is reporting 2,349 hospitalizations for a primary diagnosis of COVID-19.

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