MIAMI – Health officials announced Monday that more than 30,000 Floridians have died of COVID-19, but hospitalizations and cases have continued to drop, mirroring the national trend.
Florida’s Department of Health reports that 30,065 state residents have died and more than 1.8 million have been infected. Officials say 530 people who live outside the state have died of the virus in Florida.
On Monday, there were 4,147 COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida, according to a state online census of hospital beds. Meanwhile, nearly 1.4 million people in the state have received both the first and second doses of the vaccine and another 1.3 million have received the first dose.