Fatalities pass 17,000 as Florida adds another 2,700 cases
Matthew Peddie, WMFE
Florida added 2,709 new coronavirus cases and 45 new COVID-19 fatalities Monday. The state reported 6,526 new cases Sunday, the highest daily tally in the last two weeks.
The state has now had 812,063 cases since March.
Including non-residents, COVID-19 has killed 17,043 people statewide.
Orange County has had more than 46,986 cases, the most of any county in Central Florida. The county has reported 561 resident deaths from COVID-19.
The Agency for Health Care Administration is reporting 2,474 hospitalizations for a primary diagnosis of COVID-19, a slight increase from last week.
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