Coronavirus USA | Florida adds 153,695 cases of COVID-19 in the first 10 days of 2021 | NNDC | WORLD

The Florida Department of Health reported 12,313 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) this Sunday, putting the 2021 count at 153,695 and the entire pandemic at 1,477,010, the third highest figure in the United States.

With 111 new deaths, there are already 23,261 that have occurred in Florida because of the new coronavirus as of March 1, including 349 of nonresidents in the state.

Throughout December, 315,149 new cases of COVID-19 and if the rate of infection continues as it has been in January, that figure can be exceeded.

Of the 137,935 tests of COVID-19 made in Florida and whose results were known this Sunday, 10.42% were positive.

The 19,816 confirmed cases on January 6 are the daily record in Florida of the entire pandemic.

Experts indicate that this month they will be entered in the accounts of the COVID-19 contagions resulting from meetings at Christmas and New Years parties.

To date, the number of people hospitalized with a diagnosis of COVID-19 in Florida it had risen to 7,497 and the availability of beds in intensive care units was 19.21%, according to data from the state Health Care Agency.

More than 65,500 people have had to be hospitalized in Florida by COVID-19 from March 1.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), of the 63 cases of the new covid-19 variants detected in the US, 22 are located in Florida.

Miami-Dade continues to be the county of 67 in which the Florida territory most affected by the pandemic is divided: There have been 326,607 infected and 4,413 deaths since the beginning.

Governor Ron DeSantis, who launched a vaccination plan in mid-December in which the elderly and health personnel are the priority groups, announced this week that the arrival of 250,000 new doses of vaccines is expected for the week that enters.

Until today, 514,300 people had been vaccinated, 35,857 of them with the two necessary doses, in this state.

U.S, with 22.2 million cases and 373,588 deaths, is the country in which the incidence of COVID-19 is older.

Source: EFE