ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida health officials reported 9,592 new cases of COVID-19, as cases continue to climb past 1 million in Florida and a vaccine is on the horizon.
To date, there have been 1,083,362 cases of COVID-19 reported in the state. Florida marks the third state to surpass the 1-million-cases milestone, joining Texas and California.
There were another 89 deaths linked to the virus, according to the Florida Department of Health. Of the recent deaths, 27 were reported in Central Florida.
The state’s death toll now stand at 19,716, according to the most recent report.
A list of COVID-19 testing sites in Orange County can be found here.
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With Florida possibly only days away from receiving its first doses of the much-anticipated COVID-19 vaccine, many people are wondering when they may be eligible to get the shot.
To give people across the country an idea of when they may be able to get vaccinated from the virus, The New York Times launched a tool for people to calculate where they fall in the long line of Americans looking to get vaccinated.
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In vaccine news, U.K. regulators said Wednesday that people who have a “significant history’' of allergic reactions shouldn’t receive the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine while they investigate two adverse reactions that occurred on the first day of the country’s mass vaccination program.
Professor Stephen Powis, national medical director for the National Health Service in England, said health authorities were acting on a recommendation from the Medical and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.
“As is common with new vaccines the MHRA have advised on a precautionary basis that people with a significant history of allergic reactions do not receive this vaccination after two people with a history of significant allergic reactions responded adversely yesterday,’' Powis said in a statement. “Both are recovering well.”
The United Kingdom on Tuesday became the first country to give doses of a COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer and BioNTech to its citizens amid the coronavirus pandemic.
See a county-by-county breakdown of total (and new) cases and deaths below, and click here for an interactive map of cases statewide.
Orange: CASES: 61,055 (+764) DEATHS: 652 (+10)
Osceola: CASES: 20,545 (+268) DEATHS: 262 (+10)
Seminole: CASES: 14,603 (+147) DEATHS: 289 (-1)
Polk: CASES: 29,938 (+204) DEATHS: 708 (+1)
Volusia: CASES: 17,875 (+155) DEATHS: 386 (+0)
Brevard: CASES: 17,077 (+198) DEATHS: 464 (+2)
Flagler: CASES: 2,945 (+19) DEATHS: 45 (0)
Lake: CASES: 11,638 (+114) DEATHS: 265 (+3)
Marion: CASES: 14,246 (+124) DEATHS: 409 (+1)
Sumter: CASES: 3,844 (+42) DEATHS: 101 (0)
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