Florida adds 7,985 new cases of covid amid prevention campaigns

Miami, Dec 8 (EFE) .- The state of Florida (USA) added 7,985 new cases of covid-19 and 92 deaths from the disease on Tuesday, in a day in which the southern Miami-Dade county, the hardest hit by the pandemic, it launched an educational campaign to stop the risk of hospital collapse.
The totals since last March 1 now stand at 1,073,770 cases and 19,627 deaths as a result of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes covid-19, according to data from the Department of Health.
Florida is the third US state with the most accumulated cases behind California and Texas, and the fourth by number of deaths, behind New York, California and Texas, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The county most affected by the pandemic continues to be Miami-Dade, which according to official data as of this Tuesday has a cumulative 246,915 cases (1,851 added today) and 3,926 deaths.
Precisely the mayor of this county, Daniella Levine Cava, who is still recovering from covid-19, today presented the campaign “WeCanWeWill” (“We CanLoHaremos”) with which she seeks to curb the risk of collapsed hospitals after the rebound in infections registered in The last weeks.
Accompanied by the mayor of Miami Beach, Dan Gelber, and his counterpart from the city of Hialeah, Carlos Hernández, among other officials and local leaders, the mayor pointed out that the campaign is aimed especially at the young population, potential carriers of the coronavirus.
Of the new cases released this Tuesday, 23% correspond to Miami-Dade.
For its part, neighboring Broward, the second most affected county in Florida, adds 115,414 cases (998 new) and 1,711 deaths since March (no deaths reported today).
This county was supposed to host the Florida Renaissance Festival in Deerfield Beach from February 13 next year, but the organizers have decided to cancel the event in view of the fact that the cases of covid-19 do not decrease.
Hospitalizations for covid-19 since March in Florida reached 56,906 today, the Department of Health said. This Tuesday 4,558 people hospitalized throughout the state with covid-19 are reported.
In hospitals throughout Florida there are 21.75% of beds available, while in Intensive Care Units (ICU) the percentage is 19.56%.
RESIGNATION OF OFFICER
As Miami-Dade authorities grapple with the effects of the pandemic, the administration of the state governor, Republican Ron DeSantis, continues to be debated because of his lack of inclination towards mandatory confinements and the closure of businesses.
Added to the controversy was that on Monday police agents searched the home of Rebekah Jones, who managed the coronavirus data on the website of the state Department of Health and who was fired last May for “insubordination.”
In the warrant search, law enforcement officers seized the computer, phones and hard drives owned by Jones, a resident of Tallahassee, the state capital.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen said in a statement that the raid on the home was in response to a complaint by the state Department of Health regarding the “hacking” of its warning system. emergency.
On Tuesday, lawyer Ron Filipowski, a Republican and member of a commission that recommended nominations for Florida’s twelfth court registry, announced his resignation after alleging that the search at Jones’ house was “inconceivable.”

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