Florida: State Florida has counted more than 7 million COVID cases, 6,000 a day but trend is down

Florida tops 7M COVID cases since start of pandemic, still averaging 6K cases per day Florida has now counted more than 7 million cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. Ashley Harding WJXT

Florida has now counted more than 7 million cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.

Numbers reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week are what led to the state’s new all-time case count.

Florida still averages around 6,000 cases every day, but that number is an improvement. According to data, 6,352 new cases were reported this past Friday. For most of June and July, Florida was averaging more than 10,000 cases per day.

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