Coronavirus At-A-Glance 4-18-20
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – New cases of the coronavirus are surfacing every day across the nation and around the world.
Here are the latest numbers and information you need to know at-a-glance as of 6:30 p.m. on April 18, 2020.
FLORIDA: 25,269 confirmed cases
- Residents: 25,492
- Deaths: 748
- Hospitalizations: 3,745
- All 67 counties reporting confirmed cases
- People Tested: 253,492
- Negative Test Results: 225,862
- Percent positive: 10.1% positive
MIAMI-DADE: 9,045 confirmed cases (largest number in the state)
- Residents: 8,962, Residents Not In Florida: 1,Non-Residents: 82
- Deaths: 197
- Hospitalizations: 857
- Negative: 44,287, Awaiting Results: 234, Inconclusive: 165
BROWARD: 3,838 confirmed cases
- Residents: 3,719, Non-Residents: 119
- Deaths: 115
- Hospitalizations: 642
- Total Tests: 32,601
- Negative: 28,725, Awaiting Results: 58, Inconclusive: 38
MONROE: 73 confirmed cases
- Residents: 66, Non-Residents: 7
- Deaths: 3
- Hospitalizations: 9
- Total Tests: 946
- Negative: 845, Awaiting Results: 28, Inconclusive: 0
These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard and are updated twice daily.
UNITED STATES: 726,645 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 37,938 (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)
AROUND THE WORLD: 2,317,759 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 159,510
- 185 countries/regions affected
TO AVOID GETTING SICK
- Wash your hands often for at least 20 seconds
- Use alcohol-based hand sanitizer
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose, mouth and face
- Avoid close contact with people who are sick or exhibit symptoms
- Stay home when you are sick
- Cough and sneeze into your elbow, not your hands
- Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you sneeze, then throw out the tissue and wash your hands
- Disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces
- Evaluate your travel plans as conditions warrant; you should rethink traveling to areas that are already under a travel advisory or areas that are experiencing an outbreak of Coronavirus
- Currently, there is no vaccine to protect against the coronavirus and no medications to treat it.
SYMPTOMS
- Mild to severe respiratory illness
- Fever
- Cough
- Shortness of breath
- For those with a weakened immune system, the elderly and the very young, there's a chance the virus could cause a lower, and much more serious, respiratory tract illness like a pneumonia or bronchitis.
- Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure
CLICK HERE to see an interactive dashboard showing real-time data of confirmed cases and deaths. Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering created a map that provides the most accurate international tracking of the outbreak of coronavirus, or COVID-19.
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