Florida: More than 1,300 new coronavirus cases, 54 deaths ahead of Phase 2

Florida announced 1,305 more recorded coronavirus infections and 54 additional deaths on Friday as the state continues its Phase 2 reopening plan.

Of those deaths, 13 were in the Tampa Bay area.

Additional cases was being diagnosed as health experts predict even more coronavirus cases in the future, due to the large number of people packing the streets for protests against police brutality.

What’s the picture in the state?

Across Florida, there have been 61,488 recorded cases of coronavirus, and 2,745 deaths.

Of those deaths, about half are tied to long-term care facilities, which house the most vulnerable populations. Manatee and Pinellas counties have seen especially bad nursing home outbreaks. Freedom Square, a retirement community in Seminole, has experienced the second most deadly outbreak in the state after losing 24 residents and a staffer.

More than a million people in Florida have been tested for coronavirus. Within that group, 5.4 percent of tests come back as positive, a number that has dropped over the months as testing became more available.

Though positive cases are spread in a bell curve across different age groups, the bulk of Florida’s 10,794 hospitalizations come from people age 45 and over.

What’s the picture in Tampa Bay?

Tampa Bay had 13 new deaths and 225 new cases announced on Friday, with the highest number of cases and deaths coming out of Pinellas County.

Together, the counties that make up the greater Tampa Bay region — Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas and Polk — account for 6,984 cases, or about 11 percent of the state’s total.

The new deaths in the region included three people in Hillsborough, five people in Manatee, four people in Pinellas and one person in Polk.

Those people include a 47-year-old Hillsborough man, a 99-year-old Hillsborough woman, an 84-year-old Hillsborough woman, an 82-year-old Manatee woman, a 68-year-old Manatee man, a 67-year-old Manatee woman, a 90-year-old Manatee woman, an 85-year-old Manatee man, an 85-year-old Pinellas man, an 87-year-old Pinellas woman and a 73-year-old Pinellas man.

As of the latest counts, Hillsborough has 2,554 cases and 91 deaths; Pinellas has 1,478 cases and 96 deaths; Manatee has 1,162 cases and 107 deaths; Polk has 1,127 cases and 64 deaths; Pasco has 416 cases and 16 deaths; Citrus has 125 cases and 12 deaths; and Hernando has 122 cases and six deaths.

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