Miami’s ABC News affiliate reports:
With the omicron variant rapidly spreading and lines of people swarming testing sites before Christmas, Florida nearly set a new record for daily COVID-19 infections. The state reported 26,811 new cases to the federal government from Wednesday, the CDC’s latest data shows Thursday.
Florida’s highest single-day case increase was 27,669 from Aug. 26, according to the CDC. This latest increase is the second-highest. The state appears poised to soon surpass the daily record, a sudden turnaround after Florida had been reporting fewer than 2,000 cases per day from late October into early December.
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BREAKING: Florida nears COVID record with 26,000+ new cases in 1 day https://t.co/OmBEGI1E6g
— WPLG Local 10 News (@WPLGLocal10) December 23, 2021