Miami, United States.
The state of Florida, one of the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, announced Thursday that in the last day of the year The record for positives about the coronavirus was broken a week after the Christmas family gatherings.
The Ministry of Health reported 17,192 new cases of coronavirus, much more than 15,300 reported cases on July 12, when the state was in the worst of the first wave of the pandemic, as well as 127 new deaths from the disease.
These figures bring the total number of cases and deaths in the state to 1,323,315 and 21,990, respectively.
But today’s data doesn’t stand alone, but the average number of announced cases per day is around 12,700 in the past week.
This new wave of Covid-19 comes next Florida had a gruesome summer, breaking national records when it registered more than 15,000 cases in one day.
Only since then California and Texas, the two most populous states in the country and the states most affected by global calculations pandemic at EE.UU., have reported numbers higher than those 15,000 in one day.
Tests
The positivity rate Of the nearly 166,000 tests conducted in the state on Wednesday, that was 11.57%, at a time when only 22% of hospital beds and 18% of intensive care units were available.
Focus on again Florida falls in the county Miami-Dade, with 2,973 new cases in the last hours, while its neighbor to the north, Broward County, added 1,572.
So south Florida, where 29% of the Florida residents, represents 39.2% of cases with a total of 519,373 positives.
And the panorama nationally isn’t much better, as a record daily deaths were recorded this week, with 3,740 on Wednesday, 15 more than the day before, according to independent data from the Universidad Johns Hopkins.
These figures confirm the fears of the country’s health authorities, who asked the population to avoid gatherings of more than one family group during these December holidays. to prevent further spread of the coronavirus after the spate of cases that followed the Thanksgiving celebration that they still hadn’t recovered from.
The long-term hope lies in vaccines, and as of Thursday, more than 211,165 people had received them in Florida, 35,700 more than the day before.