ORLANDO, Fla. – As Gov. Ron DeSantis and his task force of businesses executives and owners work on a plan to reopen Florida’s economy and continue preventing the spread of the respiratory illness known as COVID-19, Florida’s death toll is nearing 900 on Wednesday, according to the latest numbers Florida is under a stay-at-home executive order until April 30, meaning non-essential businesses could reopen but the governor has not set a date for when that will happen yet.
For small business owners and furloughed employees impacted by closures, that date can’t come quickly enough. As of Wednesday morning, there have been 28,309 positive cases of the novel coronavirus since March 1 in Florida, according to the DOH dashboard which is updated