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Your Coronavirus Update: Florida Reports 1,976 New Coronavirus Cases, 58 Additional Deaths

Photo: Nick Fewings
Photo: Nick Fewings

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Florida reported 1,976 new coronavirus cases for a total of 2,293,980 cases. 

According to data collected by Johns Hopkins and analyzed by NPR, the average daily caseload is 3,171 new cases a day. That’s an 18 percent decrease from last week’s average daily caseload and a 35 percent decrease from the average daily case numbers two weeks ago.

More than 93,100 residents have been hospitalized, and with the addition of 58 COVID-related deaths today, 36,133 residents have died. 

Some 9,608,397 Floridians have gotten the Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

The CDC says anyone who is fully vaccinated does not need to wear a face mask in public or private, except in medical settings or on mass transportation like planes.

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Danielle Prieur covers education in Central Florida.