19 more Manatee County residents test positive for COVID-19. Statewide total passes 9,000
NIneteen Manatee County residents are among the more than 1,200 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the state by the Florida Department of Health on Thursday.
Manatee County now has 89 residents who have tested positive for the new coronavirus.
Statewide there are now 9,008 total cases. There were 43 more deaths reported Thursday, including in Broward, Clay, Dade, Duval, Flagler, Hillsborough, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Pinellas, Polk and Sarasota counties, bringing the death toll to 144 as a result of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
Three of the 144 deaths have occurred in Manatee County. The most recent was reported Wednesday and involved a 77-year-old man who had not traveled recently or had any contact with someone known to have tested positive.
Two of the deaths in Manatee County and three in Sarasota County have occurred in long-term care facilities, but the Department of Health has not identified those facilities.
Among the county’s three hospitals, Lakewood Ranch Medical Center has seen the most cases, with nine out of 32 patients they have tested being positive for the virus. Manatee Memorial Hospital has had two patients test positive out of 24 their lab has tested and Blake Medical Center has had two patients test positive, the only two patients their lab has tested.
Testing has been completed on 655 people in Manatee County, with four of those tests still pending. The percentage of people tested who were positive for the coronavirus is about 13.6 percent.
In Sarasota County, there were 11 new COVID-19 cases reported Thursday, bringing the county’s total of cases to 110. The state health department confirmed two additional deaths in Sarasota County on Thursday evening, bringing the total deaths there to seven.
Sarasota has tested 1,024 people, of which 11 tests are still pending;10.7 percent of those tested in Sarasota have been positive for the virus.
Hillsborough County has 404 people, or about 7 percent of the 5,993 total people tested, who were positive for the virus. In Pinellas County, 273 of 4,313 people tested, or about 6 percent, have tested positive.
This story was originally published April 2, 2020 at 11:52 AM.
