MIAMI _ Florida's Department of Health on Tuesday morning confirmed 437 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state total of confirmed cases to 27,495. There were 16 new deaths announced, raising the statewide death toll to 839.
Twelve of the new deaths were in South Florida.
A 38-year-old woman, a 67-year-old woman, a 69-year-old man and a 74-year-old man died in Miami-Dade, increasing the county's death toll to 227.
A 40-year-old woman and three men between the ages of 56 and 93 died in Broward. Four men between the ages of 74 and 93 also died in Palm Beach. Each county now has a death toll of 126.
The other deaths were in Escambia, Lee and Pinellas counties.
Of the new confirmed COVID-19 cases, 432 are Florida residents and five are nonresidents who were diagnosed or isolated in the state. Of the total confirmed cases statewide, 26,761 are Florida residents and 734 are nonresidents.
It's likely that the statewide total number of confirmed cases is significantly undercounted because Florida reports only the number of Floridians waiting to hear test results from state labs, not private ones _ and private labs are completing more than 90% of state tests.
The results of thousands of pending tests from private labs have taken as long as two weeks to be added to the state's official count. The state's website does not say its figures exclude the vast majority of pending tests for the novel coronavirus.
Health officials say the state has had a total of 4,063 hospitalizations relating to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
The statewide and county-level data for COVID-19 hospitalizations includes anyone who was hospitalized during their illness and "does not reflect the number of people currently hospitalized," according to Florida's Department of Health.
The department says it does not "have a figure" to reflect current hospitalization data.
