Coronavirus At-A-Glance 7-21-20; Florida Cases Increase 9,440
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – New cases of the coronavirus are surfacing every day South Florida and the rest of the state.
Here are the latest numbers and information you need to know at-a-glance as of 11 a.m. on July 21, 2020.
FLORIDA: 369,834 confirmed cases
- One-Day increase: 9,440 cases
- Total Florida Deaths: 5,319
- New Deaths: 136
- Hospitalizations: 21,780
- Total Tests: 3,103,674
- Negative Test Results: 2729,916
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 13.62%
MIAMI-DADE: 89,557 confirmed cases (largest number in the state)
- One-Day Increase: 2,522
- Total Deaths: 1,324
- New Deaths: 15
- Hospitalizations: 4,841
- Total Tests: 514,070
- Negative: 423,482
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 19.2%
BROWARD: 42,577 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 1,601
- Total Deaths: 517
- New Deaths: 15
- Hospitalizations: 2,905
- Total Tests: 330,489
- Negative: 287,543
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 15.1%
MONROE: 935 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 41
- Total Deaths: 6
- New Deaths: 0
- Hospitalizations: 57
- Total Tests: 9,920
- Negative: 8,876
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 13.2%
These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard.
UNITED STATES: 3,832,714 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 140,937 (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)
AROUND THE WORLD: 14,739,450 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 610,776
- 188 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.
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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