Drew Dixon
No county in the five-county First Coast region recorded any daily coronavirus deaths, according to Florida Department of Health figures released Sunday.
The total number of fatalities due to COVID-19 held steady at 288 while the number of total cases in Northeast Florida increased by 444 over Saturday morning’s figure to 32,494.
The number of daily fatalities remaining unchanged shifts a notable trend for Jacksonville in particular. The city had been recording at least one death on a daily basis going back to July 18. Friday’s and Saturday’s state figures showed Jacksonville recorded 12 and 11 fatalities respectively, closing in on the city’s single-day record of 16 fatalities on July 25.
Jacksonville’s positivity rate for coronavirus testing has also stabilized in the past two weeks. Jacksonville recorded a 21.1% positivity test rate on July 9. The city then retreated below 10% for the first time in weeks three days later on July 12.
The positivity rate for coronavirus tests had fluctuated through mid-July and then in late July, those figures started to even out. Sunday’s figures showed Jacksonville’s positivity rate at 6.9%. The positivity rate hasn’t exceeded 10% in August and that figure has averaged 7.2% in the past seven days. The average positivity rate for the past two weeks in Jacksonville is now 7.4%.
In other areas of the First Coast:
- St. Johns County recorded 42 new infections for a total of 3,635.
- Clay County ticked up by 37 new cases for a total of 3,282.
- Baker County saw 80 new cases for a total of 907.
- Nassau County recorded 14 new cases for a total of 1,233.
Across Florida, there are now 532,806 infections caused by COVID-19 and 8,315 have died.
3 comments
Sonja Fitch
August 9, 2020 at 1:32 pm
Omg. Really!? Our children will be trying to transition back into school ! Please do not take these numbers as a reprieve from being over protective of our children!
DisplacedCTYankee
August 9, 2020 at 11:54 pm
“Jacksonville shows no new COVID-19 fatalities in nearly a month”
It’s those *old* fatalities that will kill you.
Meg
August 10, 2020 at 9:58 am
When I look at the death numbers for duval this is completely false. I screen shot duval daily deaths and they have gone up even more over the past 4 weeks. How are you even claiming this when the facts are public knowledge? 🧐
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