ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida marks the first day of August with 9,642 new coronavirus cases as emergency management officials are challenged to mitigate a pandemic while bracing for a hurricane.The Florida Department of Health reporting Florida has now seen 480,028 total cases of COVID-19 since the virus was first detected in March.
The current positivity rate for those who tested positive for the first time is 11.08% percent.While reporting of coronavirus deaths are delayed by days and sometimes weeks, state public health leaders say 178 people have recently died from the virus.
Their deaths raise the overall count to 7,144. Florida’s death toll increased by more than 1,000 for the week with Friday marking the fourth day in a row that the state.