40 deaths from coronavirus in Duval County among 163 Florida added Tuesday

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. The Florida Department of Health on Tuesday reported a total of 163 additional deaths in the state due to COVID-19, 40 of which were reported in Duval County.

It is important to note that it is unclear exactly when those people died. However, this is the highest number of deaths in Duval County that the Department of Health has reported in a single day.

The Florida Department of Health reported 9,816 new cases of coronavirus in the state on Tuesday – the second day in a row that fewer than 10,000 cases have been reported in a day since Dec. 28 when 8,198 cases were reported.

Duval County on Tuesday recorded 553 additional cases for 75,731 cases.

Since March, 1,589,097 people in Florida have tested positive for COVID-19.

Of the deaths reported Tuesday, 48 were in Northeast Florida.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, 24,820 people have died in Florida related to the virus.

According to the German Health Care Administration Agency, 7,363 people were hospitalized in Florida with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19.

The health department said Tuesday that the static positive percentage on Monday’s test was 8.97%.

Health Department data showed Monday that 1,066,107 people in Florida received at least one shot of two COVID-19 vaccines approved by the federal government.

Common symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, cough, breathing problems, sore throat, muscle aches and loss of taste or smell. Most people develop only mild symptoms. However, some people, usually people with other medical complications, develop worse symptoms, including pneumonia.