ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida on Wednesday reported fewer than 3,000 new COVID-19 cases, a welcomed change after the state started the seventh month of the coronavirus pandemic with a spike in new cases due to a dump of backlogged tests.Wednesday’s 2,402 new cases followed a trend the state saw much of August, with the number of COVID-19 cases on the decline.
The new numbers bring the state’s overall total to633,442 sinceMarch.On Tuesday, the Florida Department of Health reported 7,569 new cases, the jump in cases largely due to a dump of backlogged test results from Quest Diagnostics, a private laboratory.FDOH officials said had it not been for Quest’s 75,000 reported test results, which dated back to April, the agency would have reported 3,773.