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Miami-Dade Reports 700th Coronavirus Death; FL Has 55,424 Cases

Miami-Dade County reported its 700th death from the coronavirus Saturday as Florida health officials reported 34 new deaths.

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Saturday's case total represents an increase of 927 new cases.
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TALLAHASSEE, FL — Miami-Dade County reported its 700th death from the coronavirus Saturday as Florida health officials reported 34 new deaths and 131 new hospitalizations in the state. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to 55,424.

Saturday's case total represents an increase of 927 new cases over the previous 24-hour period throughout Florida. The state's death toll from the virus rose to 2,447 Saturday, up from 2,413.

Miami-Dade, which includes Miami and Miami Beach, has been at the epicenter of Florida's outbreak along with neighboring Broward and Palm Beach counties.

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Those three South Florida counties account for 30,791 cases — or some 55 percent of Florida's total confirmed cases.

Eleven Florida counties reported 34 new deaths Saturday compared to 49 new deaths Friday, 45 deaths Thursday, 61 deaths Wednesday, seven deaths Tuesday, 15 new deaths Monday, four deaths Sunday and 43 deaths last Saturday. One Florida county reported one fewer death on Saturday.

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Miami-Dade County reported 15 new deaths. Broward County reported five new deaths. Palm Beach County reported two new deaths.

Lee County reported four new deaths. Hillsborough County reported two new deaths.

Levy County reported its first death from the virus. Charlotte County reported one new death as did Duval County, Indian River County, Manatee County and Marion County.

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Miami-Dade reported 17,826 confirmed cases of the virus Saturday. Nearby Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale, reported 7,067 cases. Palm Beach County, which includes West Palm Beach, reported 5,898 cases.

Florida had a 5.6 percent positive test rate for the virus based on a total of 995,886 tests that had been administered as of Saturday. The number of hospitalizations in Florida increased to 10,113, up from 9,982 a day earlier.

Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa, reported 2,129 cases. Orange County, which includes Orlando, reported 1,976 cases.

In an attempt to provide as much information to our readers as possible, Patch is publishing the following county-by-county breakdown of the coronavirus cases in Florida's 67 counties, along with the median age of patients, the number of hospital cases by county and the number of deaths.

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Patch updates this chart once each day based on data provided by the Florida Department of Health. The counties that reported new deaths on Friday are shown in bold.

Here is the most recent data:

County
Total Cases (includes nonresidents)Median Age (as of 5.28)Number of Hospital Cases (Florida residents)
Deaths By County (Florida residents)
1. Alachua County37948747
2. Baker County296510 3
3. Bay County9748133
4. Bradford County51 72112
5. Brevard County4205461 12
6. Broward County7,067501,495 313
7. Calhoun County56806 4
8. Charlotte County45067 121 63
9. Citrus County121603212
10. Clay County3805992 28
11. Collier County1,51447200 49
12. Columbia County14444132
13. Miami-Dade17,826 492,909 700
14. Desoto County1734423 7
15. Dixie County4951
82
16. Duval County1,60848263 48
17. Escambia County8105564 33
18. Flagler County1855620 4
19. Franklin County2420
20. Gadsden County 26944
44 2
21. Gilchrist County13500
22. Glades County293841
23. Gulf County142
0
24. Hamilton County230414
25. Hardee County933011
26. Hendry County40540
46 14
27. Hernando County113
48225
28. Highlands County1275537 9
29. Hillsborough County2,12947418 81
30. Holmes County19421
31. Indian River County1266229 10
32. Jackson County 2494013 1
33. Jefferson County296673
34. Lafayette County8401
35. Lake County2985270 15
36. Lee County1,89454423 105
37. Leon County4063637 6
38. Levy County31463 1
39. Liberty County213411
40. Madison County695744
41. Manatee County1,03756212 97
42. Marion County2444934 7
43. Martin County6264175 9
44. Monroe County1085510 4
45. Nassau County7545141
46. Okaloosa County2125636 6
47. Okeechobee County76349
48. Orange County1,97644321 41
49. Osceola County69849152 19
50. Palm Beach County5,898 501,168 337
51. Pasco County3814976 13
52. Pinellas County1,26255388 82
53. Polk County1,00553312 55
54. Putnam County1504721 5
55. Santa Rosa County24247249
56. Sarasota County62964165 77
57. Seminole County48446109 12
58. St. Johns County25652386
59. St. Lucie County4635195 30
60. Sumter County253654417
61. Suwannee County167573918
62. Taylor County20403
63. Union County31594 1
64. Volusia County73053143 38
65. Wakulla County344651
66. Walton County1145616 9
67. Washington County576510 4
68. Unknown counties84410

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