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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The daily release of Florida’s coronavirus data will not be updated by the Florida Department of Health due to the Christmas holidays, it was announced Friday.
COVID-19 reports will be available Saturday, Dec. 26, based on a tweet from the Florida Department of Health.
In honor of the Christmas holidays, the ministry is not releasing COVID-19 reports today. The reports will resume tomorrow, December 26.
– Florida Dept. Health (@HealthyFla) December 25, 2020
This is the second time since the state started reporting the numbers. The data was not released on Thanksgiving last month.
Florida health officials reported 13,147 new COVID-19 cases and an additional 121 resident deaths as a result of the virus Thursday.
On Thursday, the state confirmed 1,247,546 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic and 20,995 deaths among residents. Miami-Dade County reported another day of new cases of more than 2,000 with 283,285 reported cases and 12 deaths, bringing that total to 4,108.
The new cases from Broward County were more than 1,000 with a total of 130,978 cases and 1,798 deaths with two deaths reported Thursday.
Also, many state-run test sites will be closed over the holiday weekend.
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