Understanding the numbers
Since mid-July, daily reported COVID-19 cases in Florida remained under 10,000. And, between Sept. 1 and Oct. 16, daily reported cases stayed below 4,000.
That changed on
The
highest single-day case number Florida has reported so far is 17,783 for Jan. 5. The report released on Jan. 2 of 31,518 newly-reported cases is higher, but that reported combined updates for Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.
The
738 confirmed on Sept. 28.
On Oct. 30, Florida became the third state to cross the 800,000 reported COVID-19 cases mark. Then on Dec. 1,
Florida became the third state to surpass 1 million confirmed cases. As of Jan. 6, California and Texas have 2.5 and 1.9 million cases, respectively, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.