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MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — On Christmas, Florida deed a caller grounds successful the pandemic for the fig of COVID cases reported for a day.
On Saturday, the authorities reported 32,850 regular caller cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The time before, 31,758 caller regular cases were reported, breaking the erstwhile grounds of much than 27,000 cases acceptable successful August during the tallness of the delta question successful Florida.
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The authorities did not study immoderate numbers for Sunday.
According to the Florida Department of Health from December 17 to 23, determination were much than 125,000 caller COVID cases statewide, with Broward County accounting for much than 25,000 of those cases and Miami-Dade County making up 52,000.
Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties are considered “high risk” for assemblage transmission, according to the CDC.
As cases proceed to surge, truthful are the fig of people getting tested.
The existent surge is being driven by the spreading of the highly contagious Omicron variant.
The swelling fig of microorganism cases created a request for COVID-19 tests, adjacent connected Christmas Day erstwhile tests were astir arsenic fashionable arsenic eating ham oregon drinking egg-nog-like coquito, for some.
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On Monday, Miami-Dade was handing retired free at-home COVID trial kits astatine 27 nationalist libraries successful the county. The region held its archetypal organisation astatine 5 room locations connected Friday.
There is simply a bounds of up to 3 tests per household portion supplies last.
For those wanting to spell to a trial tract this week, determination volition beryllium changes implicit the upcoming vacation weekend.
On New Year’s Eve, each Miami-Dade sites person regular hours but South Dade Government Center and Tropical Park, which adjacent astatine 7 p.m.
On New Year’s Day, the unfastened sites are Tropical Park, South Dade Government Center, Miami Dade College North Campus, and PortMiami.
In Broward, each trial sites are closed connected New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
For a database of COVID investigating sites crossed South Florida, click here.
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Since the opening of the pandemic, determination person been 62,347 deaths successful the authorities wherever COVID played a factor.
CBSMiami.com Team
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