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NBC News reports:
Florida surpassed 400,000 total coronavirus cases on Friday, one day after Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state had “clearly stabilized with the cases.” As of 9:25 a.m. ET Friday, Florida had recorded some 402,312 cases of COVID-19.
The state logged an average of 10,700 cases per day over the last seven days. In all, some 5,653 people have died of COVID-19 in Florida, according to the state health department.
The somber milestone follows the U.S. topping 4 million confirmed coronavirus cases nationwide. The South, Sun Belt and parts of the western U.S. are grappling with recent alarming surges in coronavirus infections.
Yahoo News reports:
Word of a new COVID-19 case isn’t so much news as it is a conversation starter in the Villages, a master-planned community that has over 132,000 residents, three ZIP Codes and 55 golf courses. If it were a city, it would be the 16th-largest in the state — and nearly 80% of its residents are over 65.
News of rising infections arrive with unnerving frequency. “It’s a reality. It’s a fact,” resident Jack Forst said of the virus. “It’s always on everybody’s mind.”
The eerie sense of who might be next has changed the way some people live their lives. The Villages’ recreation guide, which Forst said was recently the size of a small-city phone book, was just 36 pages this week — with three of those pages devoted to COVID-19 precautions.
The Miami Herald reports:
Florida’s Department of Health on Friday confirmed 12,444 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state’s known total to 402,312. There were also 135 new Florida resident deaths announced, increasing the statewide resident death toll to 5,653.
Miami-Dade County reported 3,362 additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 16 new deaths, according to Florida’s Department of Health.
The county now has 98,430 confirmed cases and 1,370 deaths. Broward County reported 1,566 additional confirmed cases of the disease and 10 new deaths. The county now has 46,576 known cases and 546 deaths.