Florida is experiencing an increase in COVID-19-related hospitalizations, according to state data.
As of Monday, the state had a daily average of 3,386 people hospitalized with COVID-19 over a seven-day period, the data shows. That’s an 8% increase compared to 10 days prior, on April 16, and a 15% increase from the average of 2,869 hospitalizations recorded this time last month.
In Volusia County, the number has remained steady with a daily average of 106 people hospitalized with COVID-19, which has remained on par with numbers reported 10 days ago.
Halifax Health, which currently has 41 COVID-positive patients, had nearly the same number of COVID patients as 10 days ago, according to spokesman John Guthrie. Those patients, which span across the system's three hospitals, range in age from 23 to 83. It’s unclear whether any of the patients were infected with a COVID-19 variant.