Florida sees another 8,500 new coronavirus cases, 29 additional deaths

The State of Florida reported another 8,530 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, along with an additional 29 new deaths.

Test results for more than 72,100 people were reported to the Florida Department of Health.

The number of cases in Florida since the beginning of the pandemic is now 141,075.

The number of deaths in the state now stands at 3,419.

On Saturday, a record high of cases topped 9,500 in the state.  Since Saturday, 29 Florida residents have died in Collier, Miami-Dade, Lee, Manatee, Palm Beach, Pinellas, and Polk counties.

There has been a total of 14,244 hospitalizations of Florida residents because of the coronavirus pandemic, an increase of 108 since Saturday.

A total of 1,883,244 test results have been received by the Florida Department of Health, and among those, 7.5% have been positive.

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