2 Clay County ladies, Duval male amongst brand-new deaths as Florida goes beyond 1,000 COVID-19 fatalities

A Clay County long-term care center on Friday disclosed a break out of novel coronavirus impacting over 30 locals and personnel, a week after declining to acknowledge the extent of its infections.

There are at least 31 validated cases of COVID-19 among citizens and staff members of Heartland Healthcare Center in Orange Park, a 120- bed facility located on Wells Roadway, according to data launched by the center’s moms and dad business, HCR ManorCare. It’s unclear if the deaths reported Friday by the Department of Health are linked to Heartland Healthcare Center.

The death of a 67- year-old Duval County guy was also reported Friday morning.

Florida now has 30,533 positive COVID-19 cases with 4,817 patients hospitalized by the sometimes deadly virus.

Northeast Florida’s 11 counties now have more than 2,000 coronavirus cases with Duval County being the hardest hit (955).

Alachua County’s caseload increased by 13 in the last 24 hours and now sits at244 Clay County has 266 cases, St. Johns has 203, followed by Flagler (106), Putnam (81), Nassau (49), Columbia (46), Bradford (42), Baker (20) and Union (4 ).

Tracking county-by-county cases, deaths

Among the brand-new regional cases are two Duval County kids– a 1-year-old woman and an infant young boy– a Putnam County 7-year-old girl and a 12- year-old St. Johns County kid.

Considering that early March, more than 318,800 tests have been administered in Florida, according to the health department. The huge majority (899%) of those outcomes have actually come back negative. The state has actually not reported a number of people who have actually recovered from the illness.