MIAMI _ The Florida Department of Health on Friday added 3,198 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 100 resident deaths. The numbers are down from Thursday across the state.
The number of nonresident deaths increased by three to 153.
As of the 10 a.m. EDT Friday report from the state's Agency for Health Care Administration, 3,358 people were currently hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19, a reduction of 55 people from Wednesday morning.
The South Florida counties' trends went down compared to Thursday morning. On Friday, the agency updates the figures throughout the day. Miami-Dade went down 11 to 616; Broward down three, to 387; Palm Beach down 19 to 194; Monroe down two to one.
Florida's current hospitalization data does not always match the hospitalization data reported in Miami-Dade's New Normal dashboard. Officials say this could be for a number of reasons including the frequency of daily updates.
Miami-Dade had 709 people in the county hospitalized primarily because of COVID-19, a drop from Thursday's 718 and the 16th drop in just over two weeks. The county reports 78 new COVID patients were admitted to hospitals and 87 were discharged.
Testing, like hospitalizations, helps officials determine the virus's progress and plays a role in deciding whether it is safe to lift stay-at-home orders and loosen restrictions. Miami-Dade allowed indoor dining and casinos to reopen Monday _ with restrictions.
Friday, the state reported 22,333 people were tested with a daily positivity rate of 5.10%. Through the pandemic, 4,747,072 residents and nonresidents have been tested in Florida and bumped from 13.48% to a 13.49% positive test rate in Friday's report.
