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Florida surpasses 300,000 coronavirus cases

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Health officials reported an additional 10,181 new confirmed cases Wednesday.
Florida surpassed 300,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. The state has seen a surge of infections in recent weeks and now sits behind only California and New York in the number of confirmed cases it’s reported.
Health officials reported an additional 10,181 new confirmed cases Wednesday. Florida took more than three months to reach 100,000 coronavirus cases but then took just two weeks to jump from 100,000 to 200,000.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in a news conference Wednesday said the state is doing roughly 90,000 tests per day but said the results were taking too long to process.
„One thing that I think is clear is that we need to get these testing results back in a timely fashion,“ DeSantis said.

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