Coronavirus-At-A-Glance: Miami-Dade Sees One Day Increase Of More Than 2,700 Cases
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 August 1, 2020.
FLORIDA: 480,028 confirmed cases
- One-Day increase: 9,642 cases
- Total Florida Deaths: 7,144
- New Deaths: 178 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 26,972
- Total Tests: 3,684,875
- Negative Test Results: 3,199,415
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 12.01%
MIAMI-DADE: 121,207 confirmed cases (largest number in the state)
- One-Day Increase: 2,745
- Total Deaths: 1,647
- New Deaths: 36 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Hospitalizations: 5,599
- Total Tests: 634,887
- Negative: 512,148
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 18.39%
BROWARD: 56,797 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 1386
- Total Deaths: 742
- New Deaths: 36 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Hospitalizations: 3,398
- Total Tests: 401,778
- Negative: 344,366
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 13.35%
MONROE: 1,325 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 25
- Total Deaths: 9
- New Deaths: 1 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Hospitalizations: 89
- Total Tests: 12,327
- Negative: 10,992
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 13.05%
These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard.
UNITED STATES: 4,566,275 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 153,642 (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)
AROUND THE WORLD: 17,622,478 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 680,165
- 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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