ORLANDO, Fla. – On Wednesday, the Florida Department of Health reported 2,355people have tested positive for coronavirus for the first time.
With the new cases, the state has now reported 671,201 cases of the virus since March and will soon have tested five million Floridians.According to the CDC, Florida is third in the nation for the number of people tested, only after New York and California.Testing numbers are expected to increase among Florida’s younger population, as the University of Central Florida has plans to randomly test its students.
Orange County Public Schools is also continuing its second day of student-athlete testing. The district using part of its CARES Act funding initiates a COVID-19 rapid testing program on football.