The 2.49 million COVID-19 cases within . The numbers were 6,089 for Sarasota County and 5,423 for Manatee the week of Jan. 7-13. Now, the good news: Florida logged 59,061 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday. But the high number of new COVID-19 infections in Florida also includes health care workers, leading nurses and doctors who've contracted the virus to miss work for days and forcing some . Today's numbers: The U.S. has recorded more than 48 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than 785,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Florida's fading omicron surge hit new lows as the state reported the 7-day average for new cases dipped below 9,000 and the testing positivity rate for much of South Florida dropped fell 10% . and last updated 8:16 PM, Jan 01, 2022 TAMPA, Fla. According to CDC data, Florida leads the country in new coronavirus cases. The state reported 1,192 deaths this week, the highest death rate since October's delta wave and nearly twice as many deaths as the previous week. Deaths are always the last number to move . New York State is making masking mandatory at businesses . TAMPA, Fla. - As the omicron variant continues to spread across the state, health officials are growing concerned. People we talked with said the omicron variant prompted them to come out. First published on Mon 3 Jan 2022 13.26 EST. To put into perspective the Florida Department of Health reported 29,568 new cases last week. Even though there have been no cases of clinical infection, the new omicron variant is now the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the Florida county that is home to the nation's largest theme park . The subvariant has been found in at least 74 countries and. Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 333 were in. Case numbers will likely be higher and the peak could come sooner. The omicron variant multiplies 70 times faster in the human bronchial tubes than the initial COVID-19 infection or the delta variant, according to a new study from the University of Hong Kong. GENEVA (AP) The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally fell everywhere last week except the Middle East and Southeast Asia, according to the World Health Organization. In Florida, omicron peaked at the highest level of new cases of any wave, more than 60,000 in one day, or three times the summit of the delta surge. Dr. Unnasch says two things are driving Florida's latest surge, omicron can infect those who have been vaccinated, and anyone who . New coronavirus cases dropped in Florida in the week ending Sunday, dipping by 3.4% as 408,841 cases were reported . The . Older adults, those with underlying medical conditions (like chronic lung diseases, heart conditions, diabetes, smoking, etc. That's about 14,700 infections per day on average, down from more than. MIAMII - The first known case of the omicron COVID-19 variant has been found in South Florida. There have been 4,933,518 total cases since the pandemic started. Florida health officials recorded 103,022 COVID-19 cases Feb. 4-10, according to the latest state report released Friday. 9 to No. Stay . The full Florida Department of Health press release can be found here. Global totals: More than 264 . COVID-19 patients occupy 4.27% of patient beds in those reporting hospitals, compared to 4.18% in the previous day's reporting hospitals. Meanwhile, cases have been. Florida drops below the Top 10 on places where COVID-19 is spreading the fastest. Florida's test positivity climbed as high as 20.5% during the delta surge during the week ending Aug. 19 and 31.3% during the omicron surge in the first week of January. Florida's test positivity climbed as high as 20.5% during the delta surge during the week ending Aug. 19 and 31.3% during the omicron surge in the first week of January. Cases. Florida COVID-19 data Florida's COVID-19 caseload increased by 304% for the week of Dec. 15-21, an increase of over 50,000. Patients who've received the first dose: 258,779,830. Florida's fading omicron surge hit new lows as the state reported the 7-day average for new cases dipped below 9,000 and the testing positivity rate for much of South Florida dropped fell 10% . Unnasch has been watching the. During the week of Dec. 10-16, 29,568 new cases and a 5.4 percent new case positivity rate were reported statewide, according to data from the Florida Department of Health. "This thing has just been going up like a rocket out of Cape Canaveral," Dr. Tom Unnasch with USF Public Health said. California was always doing better than Texas and Florida in per capita deaths, but today the per capita death rate in Texas is about 35 percent higher than California's. In Florida, it's 50 . 4. The overall number of Covid . The week prior to that . Florida COVID-19 infections rise for third week as officials mum on details of omicron. And many . The state's new-case . During the week of Dec. 10-16, 29,568 new cases and a 5.4 percent new case positivity rate were reported statewide, according to data from the Florida Department of Health. More than 8,000 new cases were found both Thursday and Friday in Florida. Experts are watching the omicron subvariant and its mutations. Deaths from COVID-19 in Florida continued surging last week as cases and hospitalizations showed some signs that the highly contagious omicron variant may be running its course. South Florida has passed peak of omicron surge, experts say 43,179 new cases reported from Tuesday, 5th straight day under 50K The peak of the latest COVID-19 surge is now behind hospitals in. ), and those pregnant and recently pregnant are at increased risk for severe The number of tests was roughly the same on Monday, Dec. 7, but the number of daily vaccinations has grown sharply to 130. Elsewhere, including the New England region, the omicron subvariant makes up more than half of all cases. While that is up from Wednesday's 55,573, it remains down significantly from the 71,746 recorded on January 11th. Welcome to today's edition of the Florida Coronavirus Watch Newsletter, which comes out every Monday and Thursday or as urgent news dictates. Cases increased from 50 per 100,000 population in Brevard the week ending Dec. 16 to more than 814 cases per 100,000 the week ending Dec. 30. Patient deaths: 1,008,585. TAMPA BAY, Fla In the past 7 days, Florida has seen more than 206,000 new COVID-19 cases. Health Department . The United States reported more than 2 million coronavirus cases in one week, breaking yet another record as the omicron variant surges across the country. Thursday, the state hit nearly 58,000 cases in one day alone, and health experts say those numbers are. Several southern U.S. states, including Texas, Georgia, Louisiana and Florida, have confirmed cases of the omicron Covid-19 variant as the highly mutated strain takes root in half of all U.S. states. What you need to know now about COVID-19 in Florida. The significant rise in cases comes as the omicron variant spreads rapidly through Florida communities and a large increase in. Current variants of concern; Name Lineage Status; Omicron: B.1.1.529: Identified in southern Africa in Nov. 2021 and spread around the world. Oklahoma reported about 2,400 new cases in the state's last weekly update Thursday, and the state reported more than 4,500 active cases. The first cases of the omicron variant of the novel coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19, have been reported in Florida, according to the state's Department of Health. The Omicron variant spreads more easily than earlier variants of the virus that cause COVID-19, including the Delta variant. The week prior to that,. Covid-19 cases in Florida have risen by 948% in just two weeks, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant drives a huge wave of infections and . TAMPA, Fla. COVID-19 cases are beginning to rise again across the United States and Florida. Florida among Top 40 places where COVID is spreading the fastest Florida reported far fewer coronavirus cases in the week ending Sunday, Jan. 23, adding 282,520. A sampling this week showed that omicron represented almost 100% of the strains in the samples from the wastewater facilities, Orange County Utilities spokesperson Sarah Lux said in an email. On Thursday, Florida set a new record for the number of reported Covid-19 cases in a day with 31,758. The state is barely in the Top 40. The state reported 125,201 new cases on Friday in a. COVID-19 cases across Florida have mushroomed alongside a modest increase in hospitalizations. The week prior to that . According to Friday's COVID-19 Weekly Situation Report from the Florida Department of Health, Alachua County had 3,789 new COVID-19 cases between Dec. 31 and Jan. 6 over 1,700 more than the . Total vaccine doses distributed: 751,433,155. The three most common lineages of Omicron currently are BA.1, BA.1.1 and BA.2. During this recent swing, health officials counted just 122 new deaths during the week ending Dec. 24, but in the six weeks since then, under omicron, that tally has grown, breaking 1,000 this. MIAMI - In southeast Florida, there has been a drop in hospitalizations, which experts say could signal the peak in coronavirus omicron variant cases is close. They say the strain of the virus is highly contagious and the increase in Florida 's COVID-19 cases is now beginning to reflect that. Florida reported 1,324 deaths in the past week, the highest weekly death toll yet of the omicron wave. They found the U.S. may see a total of about 140 million new infections from Jan. 1 to March 1, 2022, peaking in late-January at about 2.8 million new daily infections. During the week of Dec. 10-16, 29,568 new cases and a 5.4 percent new case positivity rate were reported statewide, according to data from the Florida Department of Health. There have been 1,994 COVID-19 related deaths in Brevard since the start of the pandemic. From No. Florida Gov. Florida's COVID-19 caseload increased by 304% for the week of Dec. 15-21, an increase of over 50,000. The Florida Department of Health reported 10,892 new cases on Friday that occurred between Nov. 26 and Dec. 1, bringing the state's overall total to 3,697,523 cases since the virus was . That's higher than the previous record of 27,669 . CDC expects that anyone with Omicron infection . The department releases weekly case numbers each Friday for the previous seven days. To put into perspective the Florida Department of Health reported 29,568 new cases last week. Marc Napp, the chief medical officer. In its latest weekly update on the pandemic, the U.N. health agency said Wednesday that confirmed cases dropped 12% to more than 3 million and reported . Last week, Florida's health department reported over twice as many new cases as the week before. COVID-19 cases in Florida are on the rise. Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi are among the states experiencing the sharpest increases in covid-19 hospitalizations since Christmas. Omicron cases are falling in South Florida, but this is no time to get complacent about COVID-19, warns Dr. O'Neil Pyke, chief medical officer of Jackson Health System in Miami. On Monday, there were 9,888 people hospitalized for the coronavirus in Florida, the Miami Herald reported, citing data from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. - The number of new COVID-19 cases in Florida has more than quadrupled, according to the latest report from the state's department of health. Florida health officials recorded 198,719 COVID . Within a month it was dominant in the U.S. Statewide, there was a new case positivity rate of 13.4% and 150.1 cases per 100,000 population from May . The actual number of infected persons is almost . COVID-19 cases across Florida more than doubled over the course of a week, according to data released by the Florida Department of Health on Friday. The country has increased its genomic surveillance to try to track Omicron's spread, but the true number of cases is likely far higher. On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new forecast that estimates that the Omicron variant is already the dominant variant in the U.S. As of Wednesday, 62,074 Floridians had died of COVID, according to data published by the CDC. A total of 4,633,077 people in Florida have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, Johns Hopkins University data shows. During a news conference in Bonita Springs . JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Cases of the omicron variant have fallen nationally, but BA.2, known as "stealth omicron," is just getting started. MIAMI - As people prepare for holiday gatherings, the COVID-19 omicron variant is . The figure above shows how omicron (purple) is expected to displace delta (teal) as the dominant strain in Florida beginning in December 2021. According to the Florida Department of Health, coronavirus cases in Miami-Dade have more than quadrupled since the last weekly report, rising from 11,689 cases between December 10 and December 16 . Florida's rocketing number of COVID-19 cases likely will peak by mid-January as the highly contagious omicron variant potentially infects most of the state's population during this wave alone . Now, there's a significant drop. "The cases are actually increasing . The latest COVID numbers. Epidemiologist Aaron Wendelboe . The rise in cases, at least for now, does not appear to be putting a stop to the holiday travel plans for many. From Dec. 10 to Dec. 16, Florida had 29,568. Florida's rocketing number of COVID-19 cases likely will peak by mid-January as the highly contagious omicron variant potentially infects most of the state's population during this wave alone . . Last week, the numbers hit an all-time high. COVID-19 cases across Florida have mushroomed alongside a modest increase in hospitalizations. ORLANDO, Fla. -- Even though there have been practically no cases of clinical infection, wastewater samples show that the new omicron variant is now the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the Florida . They say the strain of the virus is highly contagious and the increase in Florida 's COVID-19 cases is now beginning to reflect that. However, there has been no corresponding spike in . Its numbers show the Sunshine State recorded more than 250,000. The Omicron variant, like other variants, is comprised of a number of lineages and sublineages. The Florida Department of Health has been tracking COVID cases for the last 10 weeks. New coronavirus infections grew for the third week in a row across Florida as the newest, most infectious . Those deaths were reported on the day the U.S. surpassed 900,000 deaths over the course of the. TAMPA, Fla. - As the omicron variant continues to spread across the state, health officials are growing concerned. In the United States, 60,074,429 people have tested. CDC data show that in the Southeast, including Florida, BA.2 made up about 1 in 5 cases where virus samples were sequenced during the week ending March 19, the most recent period available. This means that the . The figure above shows the total number modeled infections per day, both asymptomatic and symptomatic. The state on Friday reported 605 new deaths from COVID-19, up from 470 the previous week and the most in one week since the deadly delta variant surge. Well, so much for the "lowest case rate. The . That is 789 more than. The number of COVID-positive patients in Florida's hospitals climbed this past week by an average of 41 people daily, U.S. Health and Human Services Department data reported Friday shows. "Delta left quite a bit of devastation in terms of impact on people and their families," said . Patients who've received the second . That infection was traced back to a patient at a Miami-Dade hospital. Ron DeSantis announced the expiration date of about a million Covid-19 rapid tests, that expired late last month, has been extended.