Coronavirus Testing

Hospitalizations with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19 are at 2,989 as of Monday afternoon, up 124 statewide since the same time a day earlier.

Thursday's positivity rate in Florida was 6.41 percent on 128,590 tests.

More than 900 people in the greater Tampa Bay region tested positive for the coronavirus since Tuesday.

In the greater Tampa Bay region, 1,096 new cases were added on Tuesday.

The state's overall death toll from the pandemic now stands at 33,120 people.

Of those who were tested for the coronavirus for the first time on Tuesday, 5.21% percent were positive.

The state reported 3,597 people are being treated at hospitals in Florida with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19.

While hospitalizations due to COVID-19 continue declining statewide, the number of new cases reported Wednesday was up slightly from a day earlier.

Just over 11 months after Florida reported its first deaths attributed to COVID-19, the Department of Health reported Friday that more than 30,000 people have died due to complications from the virus.

The state added more than 8,000 new cases since Wednesday.

Monday’s data show the number of people being hospitalized in the state with a primary diagnosis of coronavirus was virtually unchanged from the day before.

Wednesday was the first day since late December where hospitalizations with COVID-19 as the primary reason were under 6,000 statewide.