With thousands of positive test results pouring in every day, Florida topped 200,000 coronavirus cases on Sunday.
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – With thousands of positive test results pouring in every day, Florida topped 200,000 coronavirus cases on Sunday.
Hitting 200,000 cases this weekend would have seemed unlikely, if not unthinkable, a month ago. On June 5, Florida totaled 61,488 cases, after adding another 1,305 positive results that day.
But then came a massive surge that included 10,059 new cases reported Sunday, bringing the overall total to 200,111 cases. That followed 11,458 new cases reported Saturday, 9,488 new cases reported Friday and 10,109 new cases reported Thursday.
In all, Florida added 59,036 cases during the past week.
The death toll as of Sunday: 3,731 Florida residents and 101 non-residents. That reflected an increase of 312 Florida resident deaths during the past week from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.
Amid the surge, Gov. Ron DeSantis has focused on steps the state has taken, such as boosting protections for nursing-home residents, as seniors and people with underlying medical conditions, pretty much the definition of nursing-home residents, are particularly vulnerable to the disease.
