Coronavirus in Jacksonville: Live updates for Sunday, Jan. 24
3:15 p.m. COVID-19 deaths rise by 132 across Florida, 15 in area
The Florida Department of Health again added more than 100 coronavirus deaths in Sunday s daily report, listing 132 more fatalities from COVID-19, with 10 in Duval County.
The statewide death toll, which surpassed 25,000 last week, now stands at 25,693, including 25,293 Florida residents.
Duval County began a new week with 10 more deaths, after reporting 63 lives lost to COVID-19 during last week s reports. That total included 40 dead in last Tuesday s health department report, the county s highest single-day toll to date.
Also recording more deaths were St. Johns County, with three, and Putnam County, with two, as the regional toll increased to 1,474 since the beginning of the pandemic in Florida. | Read more
4 p.m. | Florida adds 156 COVID-19 deaths, including 8 in Duval County, in Monday report
The Florida Department of Health reported 156 more deaths across the state in Monday s report on the coronavirus pandemic, while Duval County added eight more COVID-19 fatalities as a deadly month continued in Jacksonville.
To date, the health department has recorded 25,849 fatalities across the state, including 25,446 among Florida residents. Duval County, which added more than 60 COVID-19 deaths last week, reported eight more fatalities Monday although it is not yet certain when these deaths actually occurred. Pinellas County, with 28 newly-listed deaths, and Palm Beach County, with 25, recorded particularly heavy tolls.
Local Bugatti sale third best in 2020
Money makes the world go around, and exactly $7.1 million made a very special Bugatti go round the Bonham s auction block during its March 5 sale near the Amelia Island Concours d Elegance to become the third most expensive classic auctioned worldwide in 2020.
The top 10 auction sales for 2020 are listed in Hagerty s wrap-up as they routinely keep tabs on the auto auction markets, French-made Bugattis of the 20s and 30s making up much of the field of dreams.
The most expensive was a 1934 Bugatti Type 59 Sports at the Gooding & Company “Passion of a Lifetime” auction on Sept. 5, for $12.66 million. King Leopold III of Belgium was one of its five owners. Third place is the Amelia sale, a 1932 Bugatti Type 55 Super Sport, one of just 14 to leave the Molsheim factory with Jean Bugatti’s roadster body. It has its original engine and chassis, and was also the most expensive car sold in Amelia Island this year.
Coronavirus in Jacksonville: Live updates for Thursday, Jan. 14
3:10 p.m. |Gov. DeSantis office: Publix PAC money not linked to launch of COVID-19 vaccine program
DeSantis held a news conference last week inside a Publix in Ocala to announce that the state had formed a partnership in which the pharmacies at stores in four counties would deliver COVID-19 vaccinations.
This week, DeSantis has spoken outside Publix stores throughout the state, including the Panhandle, Sumter County and Collier County to promote an expansion of the program, which as of Wednesday included more than 100 stores in 10 counties.
Those appearances came a month after Publix’s political action committee contributed $100,000 to the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC, as the Miami New Times recently reported. The Publix PAC also made $25,000 donations to DeSantis’ committee in November 2019 and January 2020, state records show.