Coronavirus in Brevard, June 23: 40 cases, 1 death; 918 total cases. Florida case total over 103,500

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Here are updates about coronavirus cases in Brevard, according to the Florida Department of Health, as of June 23, 2020.

Brevard registered 40 new cases for a total of 918 since the pandemic began, according to Tuesday morning’s Florida Department of Health dashboard. Of the cases, 906 are residents and 12 non-residents.

There was one new death, an 82-year-old female who had contact with a confirmed COVID-19 case. The woman’s case was not travel-related, and it was counted June 11.

Coronavirus in Brevard, June 11: 22 new cases for a then-total of 506

In total, Brevard has lost 17 people, including five in June, to the coronavirus. Victims ranged in age from 63 to 94. Here are the ages and gender of those who died of COVID-19 in Brevard, according to FDOH data:

• two 73-year-old females

• 74-year-old male

• 76-year-old female

• 77-year-old female

• two 79-year-old males

• 80-year-old female

• 83-year-old female

• 84-year-old male

• 91-year-old female

• 94-year-old male

• 71-year-old female

• 64-year-old female

• 63-year-old male

• 91-year-old male

• 82-year-old female

The FDOH site was experiencing issues Tuesday morning, with messages like “not fully configured” under case totals and hospitalization data. Also, the FDOH state report noted three more cases and one less death than the FDOH dashboard.

“As of 8 a.m. Monday, Brevard has 18 COVID-19 patients hospitalized and four of them are on ventilators,” Brevard County Commissioner Curt Smith said. “Positivity rate has declined to 3.9%. There are 28 new cases down from 33 on Sunday (June 21).”

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The FDOH dashboard showed Brevard had registered 95 hospitalizations since the pandemic began. It is important to note that number is cumulative and doesn’t reflect the current number of people currently in the hospital.

The age of those affected range from 0 to 99 and the median age affected in Brevard is 42. Statewide, that number is 43.

As of Tuesday, in Brevard, 435 males were diagnosed with COVID-19 and 470 females. 

The FDOH dashboard showed Brevard tested 35,500 people with 918 positive and 34,580 negative since the pandemic began. The percentage rate of those positive was 2.6%.

The highest single-day spike in cases was June 20 with 69 cases.

Coronavirus in Brevard, June 20: Cases increase by 69, a new record, for then-total of 817

Florida surpassed 100,000 cases Monday. As of Tuesday, the state report lists 103,506 have tested positive while the FDOH dashboard showed 103,503, a jump of 3,289 or 3,289 cases from the previous day. According to the state report, of those, 101,306 are residents and 2,200 are nonresidents. In its state PDF report, FDOH listed 13,318 hospitalizations since the pandemic began, with the death total at 3,237, 64 more deaths than the previous day. The FDOH dashboard, however, showed 13,325 hospitalizations and 3,238 deaths.

Overall, FDOH dashboard shows 1,641,838 have been tested; 103,503 were positive and 1,537,249 tested negative for the coronavirus. The overall percent positive rate increased to 6.3%.

Total cases in the U.S. as of Tuesday was 2,325,970; globally that number was 9,154,232. Total deaths in the U.S. as of Tuesday was 120,771; globally that number was 473,650.

Cases by race of residents

White: 624

Black: 84

Other: 74

Unknown/No data: 124

Cases by ethnicity

Non-Hispanic: 542

Hispanic: 230

Unknown/no data: 134

City by city

Here’s the city-by-city count as of Tuesday, although some of these may include unincorporated areas. Note: Per FDOH, these are provisional.

Total number of cases as of June 23: 918

Melbourne: 245, an increase of 14

Cocoa: 167, an increase of 4

Palm Bay: 162, an increase of 6

Titusville: 61

Rockledge: 52, an increase of 4

Merritt Island: 49, an increase of 4

Satellite Beach: 28, an increase of 3

Cocoa Beach: 26, an increase of 2

Viera: 15

West Melbourne: 11

Indialantic: 11, an increase of 1

Mims: 10

Cape Canaveral: 9, an increase of 1

Indian Harbour Beach: 7

Melbourne Beach: 5, an increase of 1

Grant-Valkaria: 4

*Malabar: 3, previous FDOH reports show 4

Barefoot Bay: 3

Sebastian: 3

Port St. John: 1

Valkaria: 1

Patrick Air Force Base: 1

Missing information: 44

Zip codes

Within Brevard, these are the zip codes with the most infections, according to the FDOH (data is provisional and subject to change) as of Tuesday:

• 32922 with 100 cases. That includes all or parts of Cocoa, Rockledge and Cocoa West

• 32904 with 65 cases. That includes all or parts of Melbourne Village, Melbourne, Palm Bay, West Melbourne and June Park

• 32909 with 63 cases. That includes all or parts of Palm Bay, Malabar and Grant-Valkaria

• 32907 with 62 cases. That includes all or parts of Palm Bay, Malabar and West Melbourne

• 32940 with 63 cases. That includes all or parts of Suntree, Palm Shores, Melbourne, Viera East and Viera West

• 32955 with 58 cases. That includes parts of Rockledge, Cocoa, Cocoa West, Viera East and Viera West

• 32901 with 48 cases. That includes all or parts of Melbourne, Palm Bay and West Melbourne

• 32935 with 50 cases. That includes all or parts of Palm Shores and Melbourne

• 32780 with 47 cases: That includes all or parts of Titusville and Port St. John

• 32937 with 40 cases. That includes all or parts of Satellite Beach, Melbourne, Indian Harbour Beach and South Patrick Shores.

• 32926 with 39 cases. That includes all or parts of Rockledge, Cocoa, Cocoa West, Port St. John and Sharpes

• 32796: 34 cases. That includes Titusville

• 32905 with 33 cases. That includes all or parts of Melbourne, Palm Bay, Malabar and West Melbourne

• 32927 with 28 cases. That includes all or parts of Titusville, Port St. John and Sharpes

• 32931 with 26 cases. That includes all or parts of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach

• 32953 with 28 cases. That includes parts of Titusville and Merritt Island

• 32908 with 25 cases. That includes Palm Bay

• 32952 with 23 cases. That includes parts of Satellite Beach and Merritt Island

• 32934 with 19 cases. That includes all or parts of Melbourne and West Melbourne

• 32903 with 14 cases. That includes Indialantic, Melbourne, Indian Harbour Beach

• 32754 with 10 cases. That includes Mims

• 32920 with 9 cases. That includes Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral

• 32976 with 6 cases. That includes Grant-Valkaria, Micco and Roseland 

• 32951 with 5 cases. That includes Indialantic, Melbourne Beach and Micco

• 32950 with 5 cases. That includes Palm Bay, Malabar and Grant-Valkaria

• 32949 with less than 5 cases. That includes Malabar, Grant-Valkaria and Micco

• 32925 with less than 5 cases. That includes Patrick Air Force Base

Brevard County reported its first COVID-19 case March 16. FLORIDA TODAY began this daily COVID-19 report March 20. Please check the date in the headlines for the most up-to-date info. For questions on these reports, please email Jennifer Sangalang at [email protected] or executive editor Mara Bellaby at [email protected].

The FDOH has said data is provisional and subject to change as more information becomes available.

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