encourage teens to get vaccinated. now those influencers include twitch streamers, youtubers, tik tokkers, and, of course, most famously oliva rodriguez who spoke at the white house last month. getting the covid shot is as important as ever with the delta variant spreading. nearly 60% of the country is in a high transmission area including nearly all of florida which is where we find cnn s randy kay with more. reporter: good morning. we re continuing to see a spike in covid cases here in the state of florida. more than 110,000 new cases in the last week or so. the daily average is hovering at about 15800 cases every day over the past week or so. we also have set a new report over the weekend. the highest number of cases in a single day since the pandemic began, 21,683 cases on saturday and over the weekend.
pandemic began with 21,683 new cases saturday. if you look how florida is contributing to the number of cases around the country. 19.2% of all new covid cases reported in the u.s. are right here in florida. mainly south florida, also, we are experiencing similar numbers to what we saw back in january, really, at the height of the pandemic. florida also still just about 49% of the population here is fully vaccinated. so, is still aways to go. there s a lot of concern about schools reopening and what is happening to children under 12 who are not yet eligible for the vaccine. if you look at the numbers there. cases among that age group under 12, nearly 11,000 children in the last week or so testing positive under 12 years old for covid, the positivity rate for that age group is 18.1%. the statewide positivity rate is 18.2% and the governor here said that you cannot mandate masks in
entire country. hospitals are starting to fill up and the influx of covid patients could also effect others who need care. cnn s randy kay is in florida and takes a look at the numbers behind the crisis. reporter: in the past week or so we ve seen more than 110,000 new cases here in the state of florida of covid. the daily average is about 15,800. over the bend, we set a record for the most new cases in a single day since the pandemic began with 21,683 new cases on saturday. if you look at how florida is contributing to the number of cases around the country, 19.2% of all new covid cases reported in the u.s. are right here in florida. mainly south florida. also we re experiencing similar numbers to what we saw back in january, really, at the height of the pandemic.
tested positive for covid. the daily average over the last week is 15,818 cases per day. and just let me take you back to mid july of last year. this is like deja vu. we were seeing cases about 15,000 cases a day in mid july of last year as well. so here we are again. and we just set a record yesterday. the most cases, the most new cases in a single day since the pandemic started here in florida. 21,683 new covid cases just yesterday. and if you look at florida is contributing to the numbers across the country, 19.2% of all covid cases that are being reported across the country are right here in florida. and mostly here in south florida. also, only about half of the people here in florida are vaccinated. 49%. so just under half are vaccinated, fully vaccinated in this state. and those who are getting sick are the unvaccinated. that s why the message is to get vaccinated. they re ending up in the e.r.s