Florida announced on Wednesday July 29 that it had recorded 216 new deaths linked to Covid-19 in 24 hours, another record in this state which continues to be one of the foci of the disease in the United States. The previous record dated from the day before, with 186 dead. The total death toll from the novel coronavirus in the state now stands at 6,333, the local health department said.
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As of Wednesday, 9,446 new infections were also recorded, slightly down from the daily total of around 10,000 cases detected in weeks.
In all, 451,423 people have been officially infected in the state, out of a population of 21 million. A quarter of the cases are in Miami.
Already faced with the slowness of tests, Florida said Wednesday that it would close its testing centers from Thursday 5:00 p.m. and until further notice, " as a precaution ", as a tropical storm approaches. " All the sites have free-standing structures, including tents and other equipment, which cannot withstand the winds of a tropical storm and could injure people and cause property damage ," the local land management service said in a statement. emergencies.
The tropical storm, which is currently approaching U.S. territory of Puerto Rico with winds up to 75 km / h, is expected to reach Cuba and southern Florida this weekend, according to forecasts from the National Hurricane Center (NHC ).
Florida recently became the second state by number of cases, behind California and ahead of New York. According to the benchmark count from Johns Hopkins University, the United States on Friday passed the milestone of 150,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
