ORLANDO, Fla. – Central Florida’s largest school district, Orange County Public Schools, is set to reopen schools to less than half of its student population in less than 24 hours as the Florida Department of Health reported 4,555 new COVID-19 cases across the state.For the past five days, Florida has reported fewer than 5,000 new coronavirus cases every day.The new infections bring the state’s running total since March to 588,602 cases.
In that same time period, more than 4.3 million people have been tested for the virus.Though a decline in cases could signal a promising trend, public health officials look to the positivity rate to determine if a society has curbed the spread of infection.The positivity rate, which represents the number of.