Florida coronavirus: State reports 7,788 new cases, 119 new deaths

TAMPA (WFLA) – Florida added 7,788 coronavirus cases Sunday to bring the cumulative total to 1,721,377.

New cases reported (1,721,377 total since start of pandemic):

Sunday: 7,788
Saturday: 15,019
Friday: 10,976
Thursday: 11,423
Wednesday: 8,408

Percent positive:

The Florida Department of Health said it received 165,776 PCR or antigen lab results from across the state on Saturday. Of those tests, the state says 7.60% were positive.

Percent positive includes people who have been tested multiple times for the virus but a person is only counted once each day, even if multiple results are received for them.

Saturday: 7.60%
Friday: 8.71%
Thursday: 18.24%
Wednesday: 9.58%
Tuesday: 12.79%

Percent positivity:

The percent positivity for new cases was 5.54% on Saturday.

Percent positivity for new cases is the number of people who test PCR (nose swabs) or antigen-positive for the first time divided by all the people tested that day. That does not include people who already tested positive once and have been re-tested to see if they’re still infected.

Saturday: 5.54%
Friday: 6.62%
Thursday: 14.46%
Wednesday: 7.70%
Tuesday: 10.19%

New Florida resident fatalities (26,479 total since start of pandemic):

Health officials reported 119 new coronavirus deaths among Florida residents in Sunday’s report, increasing the total number of Floridians killed during the pandemic to 26,479. The total of non-resident deaths is 436.

The daily report from the health department does not provide the exact date of each death, which means the deaths reported may not be from the past 24 hours. It can sometimes take weeks for fatalities to be logged.

Sunday: 119
Saturday: 106
Friday: 219
Thursday: 202
Wednesday: 160

New hospitalizations (72,294 cumulative since pandemic began):