Florida well being officers report 7,000 new instances of COVID-19

Vacationers desirous to board and airplane and take to the sky might quickly be required to take a COVID-19 take a look at previous to takeoff.

Leaders of a number of main U.S. airways met on-line Friday with White Home officers to press their case towards requiring coronavirus assessments for passengers on home flights, saying it will undermine the already fragile business.

White Home press secretary Jen Psaki downplayed hypothesis that the Biden administration may quickly impose a requirement that passengers on home flights first go a COVID-19 take a look at. However she stopped in need of taking the concept off the desk.

“Stories that there’s an intention to place in place new necessities akin to testing should not correct,” Psaki mentioned. She described the assembly with CEOs as “temporary.”

An individual acquainted with the discussions mentioned the airline CEOs talked with White Home coronavirus-response coordinator Jeff Zients, in line with the particular person, who spoke anonymously to debate a personal assembly.

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The CEOs of American, United, Southwest, Alaska and JetBlue all took half within the assembly, in line with business officers.

Since late January, the CDC has required that worldwide vacationers present a destructive COVID-19 take a look at or restoration from the virus earlier than they board a flight to the U.S. The airline business typically helps that rule, believing that testing may finally change harder worldwide journey restrictions, akin to quarantines.

[READ MORE: Airlines push White House to reject COVID-19 testing for US flights]

[READ YESTERDAY’S REPORT: Brevard County sets aside millions for rental assistance as state reports 7,521 new COVID-19 cases]

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Instances

The Florida Division of Well being reported 7,401 new instances on Saturday, bringing the state’s total whole to 1,821,937 instances for the reason that virus was first detected on March 1.

Deaths

Florida reported 118 new virus-related deaths Saturday, elevating the demise toll to 29,179. This quantity consists of the 496 non-residents who died in Florida.

Hospitalizations

As of Saturday afternoon, there have been presently 4,681 folks with the virus hospitalized in Florida, in line with the state Company for Well being Care Administration.

Since March, 75,991 folks have been hospitalized in Florida after problems from COVID-19. That quantity consists of the 257 new sufferers who’ve been just lately hospitalized as a result of virus, in line with the well being division’s every day report launched on Saturday.

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Positivity price

The p.c of optimistic outcomes was 6.44% Friday. Well being officers say the speed ought to stay between 5% and 10% to show a group has a maintain of the virus and is curbing infections.

Vaccinations

The Florida Division of Well being just lately started releasing a every day report on COVID-19 vaccines administered all through the state.

As of Saturday afternoon, 2,293,883 folks have obtained at the very least the primary dose of a coronavirus vaccine. The FDOH additionally stories that 1,028,315 folks have obtained their second shot.

See COVID-19 information for the Central Florida area under:

County	Instances	New instances	Hospitalizations	New hospitalizations	Deaths	New deaths
Brevard	31,906	165	1,912	9	702	5
Flagler	5,612	28	318	5	83	7
Lake	23,346	131	1,206	7	516	13
Marion	26,227	116	1,616	4	674	1
Orange	109,087	470	2,284	7	1,015	0
Osceola	35,276	126	1,234	3	400	0
Polk	54,235	310	4,157	18	1,056	6
Seminole	25,714	108	1,077	2	398	0
Sumter	7,576	25	467	3	215	0
Volusia	33,196	162	1,628	6	604	0

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