Coronavirus At-A-Glance 4-24-20
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 6:00 p.m. on April 24, 2020.
FLORIDA: 30,533 confirmed cases
- Residents: 29,356
- Deaths: 1,046
- Hospitalizations: 4,817
- All 67 counties reporting
- Total Tests: 320,984
- Negative Test Results: 288,505
- Percent Positive: 9.5%
MIAMI-DADE: 10,926 confirmed cases (largest number in the state)
- Residents: 10,567 Residents Not In Florida: 1, Non-Residents: 133
- Deaths: 287
- Hospitalizations: 1,246
- Total Tests: 70,917
- Negative: 59,558; Awaiting Results: 267, Inconclusive: 166
BROWARD: 4,591 confirmed cases
- Residents: 4,467, Non-Residents: 124
- Deaths: 162
- Hospitalizations: 828
- Total Tests: 40,472
- Negative: 35,800 Awaiting Results: 45, Inconclusive: 36
MONROE: 77 confirmed cases
- Residents: 68, Non-Residents: 8
- Deaths: 3
- Hospitalizations: 10
- Total Tests: 1,098
- Negative: 971, Awaiting Results: 24, Inconclusive: 0
These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard and are updated twice daily.
UNITED STATES: 890,524 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 51,017 (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)
AROUND THE WORLD: 2,790,986 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 195,920
- 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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