Florida has reached a total of 2 million coronavirus infections on Saturday since the start of the pandemic, according to data from the Florida Department of Health.
The Sunshine State reported more than 5,000 new coronavirus infections on Friday, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 2,004,362 cases on Saturday.
Of the cumulative cases, about 1.9 million Florida residents tested positive, while 36,990 nonresidents tested positive in the state for the disease.
Florida also recorded 32,713 cumulative resident deaths as of Saturday and 624 nonresident deaths.
Florida is now the third state to cross the threshold of 2 million coronavirus infections.
California was, and has, the first to hit the stark milestone in December signed up now more than 3.5 million cumulative infections.
Texas reached 2 million cases in January, and currently the state has a total of 2.3 million infections.
But amid these grim statistics, 4,819,429 people Florida has received doses of vaccines so far. Of that number, 2.1 million have received one dose of Pfizer or Moderna’s two-dose regimen.
Another 2.5 million people have been fully vaccinated with Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, while an additional 145,000 people have received the one-time vaccine from Johnson & Johnson.
In general, coronavirus infections have decreased in the US in recent months. According to data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the current seven-day average of new cases is 53,200, down from its highest peak of 249,389 on Jan. 11.
The CDC too reported on Saturday that 16.7 percent of the adult population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, which equates to about 1 in 6 adults.