Drew Dixon
The First Coast recorded only 12 new cases of coronavirus cases overnight, according to data released by the Florida Department of Health Saturday morning.
Most of the new cases were in Duval County, which reported 10 more cases overnight. The county has reported 965 cases to date. Duval also reported another hospitalization, rising to 97 Saturday morning. Deaths held at 18.
The mild increase comes after Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry announced the city will host the Ultimate Fighting Championship at an empty VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on May 9. Jacksonville landed the event after venues in California and New York canceled.
Curry played up the symbolic nature of the championship on Twitter.
1st live US sporting event since COVID19 is happening in Jacksonville. We welcome @ufc @danawhite . They will fight. We will watch. The arena @OfficialVyStar will be empty but our spirit will be there. This sporting event will be a big moment in history.
— Lenny Curry (@lennycurry) April 25, 2020
Case data were mostly static in other First Coast counties.
Clay County added a case, hitting 267 overall. Nassau County hit 50 cases Saturday, up by one from Friday. St. Johns and Baker counties reported no change in any of the tracked metrics.
Across the First Coast region, there had been a total of 1,505 cases of coronavirus, 39 deaths and 211 hospitalizations as of Saturday morning.
Statewide, 30,839 have tested positive for the new coronavirus.
One comment
Christopher Perle
April 26, 2020 at 9:11 pm
Hey Drew,
Why didn’t you report on the increase of hospitalizations, now at 100!
doesn’t fit your narrative? same narrative as the mayor’s office, isn’t it?
beware scoreboard watching the DoH data. daily changes are squirrelly, stick to week old data at best.
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