Coronavirus At-A-Glance 4-8-20
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – New cases of the coronavirus are surfacing every day across the nation and around the world.
Here are the latest numbers and information you need to know at-a-glance as of 6:30 p.m. on April 8, 2020.
FLORIDA: 15,698 confirmed cases
- Residents: 15,234
- Deaths: 323
- Hospitalizations: 2,082
- 66 out of 67 counties reporting confirmed cases
- People Tested: 143,707
- Negative Test Results: 127,882; Negative test results = 11% positive
MIAMI-DADE: 5,461 confirmed cases (largest number in the state)
- Residents: 5,411, Residents Not in Florida: 1, Non-Residents: 49
- Deaths: 50
- Hospitalizations: 387
- Total Tests: 28,871
- Negative: 23,288, Awaiting Results: 188, Inconclusive: 57
BROWARD: 2,365 confirmed cases
- Residents: 2,302, Non-Residents: 63
- Deaths: 60
- Hospitalizations: 330
- Total Tests: 19,832
- Negative: 17,406, Awaiting Results: 54, Inconclusive: 19
MONROE: 52 confirmed cases
- Residents: 46, Non-Residents: 6
- Deaths: 3
- Hospitalizations: 7
- Total Tests: 616
- Negative: 445, Awaiting Results: 120, Inconclusive: 0
These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard and are updated twice daily.
UNITED STATES: 429,052 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 14,695 deaths (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)
- Recovered: 23,559
AROUND THE WORLD: 1,511,104 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 88,338
- Recovered: 328,661
- 184 countries/regions affected
TO AVOID GETTING SICK
- Wash your hands often for at least 20 seconds
- Use alcohol-based hand sanitizer
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose, mouth and face
- Avoid close contact with people who are sick or exhibit symptoms
- Stay home when you are sick
- Cough and sneeze into your elbow, not your hands
- Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you sneeze, then throw out the tissue and wash your hands
- Disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces
- Evaluate your travel plans as conditions warrant; you should rethink traveling to areas that are already under a travel advisory or areas that are experiencing an outbreak of Coronavirus
- Currently, there is no vaccine to protect against the coronavirus and no medications to treat it.
SYMPTOMS
- Mild to severe respiratory illness
- Fever
- Cough
- Shortness of breath
- For those with a weakened immune system, the elderly and the very young, there's a chance the virus could cause a lower, and much more serious, respiratory tract illness like a pneumonia or bronchitis.
- Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure
CLICK HERE to see an interactive dashboard showing real-time data of confirmed cases and deaths. Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering created a map that provides the most accurate international tracking of the outbreak of coronavirus, or COVID-19.
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