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Florida 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 have tested positive while 36,990 non-residents have tested positive in the state for the disease.
Florida also recorded 32,713 cumulative deaths among residents on Saturday and 624 deaths of non-residents.
Florida is now the third state to cross the 2 million coronavirus infection threshold.
California was the first to reach the grim milestone in December and has now logged in 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 in the midst of these grim statistics, 4,819,429 people in Florida have received doses of the vaccine so far. Of these, 2.1 million received one dose of Pfizer or the two-dose regimen of Moderna.
An additional 2.5 million were fully vaccinated with the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, while another 145,000 received the single dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson.
Overall, coronavirus infections have declined in the United States over the past two months. According to data from Centers for Disaster Control and Prevention (CDC), the current seven-day average for new cases is 53,200, a decrease from its high of 249,389 on Jan.11.
The CDC too reported on Saturday that 16.7% of the adult population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, which is about 1 in 6 adults.
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