Staff Report
Saturday
Jul 4, 2020 at 11:40 AM
Sarasota County more than doubled its previous record for new cases, while Manatee also set a new record.
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The Florida Department of Health announced 11,458 new cases of COVID-19 in the state on Saturday, July 4, beating the previous highest number of new cases in a single day — set on Thursday — by almost 1,500,
Florida now has 190,052 coronavirus cases across the state. The number of reported deaths of Florida residents increased by 18 to 3,702.
Sarasota County’s numbers jumped by 245 cases since Friday — ,more than double the previous record of 119 — to 2,059 cases, the fourth day in a row that new cases have been over 100. Manatee County also set a new record of 293 new cases, beating the previous record of 274 set at the end of June, for a total of 3,554.
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One of the reasons for those spikes is a surge in testing. Sarasota County’s positivity test rate Saturday was 13% percent, while Manatee County’s rate was 12%. The positivity rate of all tests statewide is over 17% Saturday.
There were no new deaths reported in Manatee or Sarasota counties on Saturday.
Statewide, 15,735 people have been hospitalized during the pandemic, or 9% of all cases. In Sarasota County, 221 people, or 11%, have been hospitalized. In Manatee County, 280 people, 8%, have been hospitalized.
The number of COVID-19 patients at Sarasota Memorial Hospital keeps climbing to new records. The hospital had a record 61 COVID-19 patients Friday, up from 56 patients on Thursday and 50 on Tuesday.
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