ORLANDO, Fla. – A little more than a month after reporting its first case of the novel coronavirus, Florida now has 15,456 confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to the latest information from the Florida Department of Health.
By Wednesday morning, and since the last time the numbers were updated around 6 p.m. Tuesday, Florida reported 13 more deaths and 709 new cases of the disease.
At 11 a.m. Wednesday, 309 people had died due to complications from the respiratory illness and 1,955 have been hospitalized during their battle with COVID-19.
Since the virus takes about two weeks to run its course, the hospitalization numbers reflect the number of people who have been in a facility since Florida began reporting cases not the amount of people