Florida breaks infection records and is the new epicenter of the epidemic in the United States

Over 21,000 coronavirus infections in a single day and 110,000 in a week: at the end of July, the American state of Florida breaks all records cases that had since the start of the pandemic, and it has now become the epicenter of the epidemic in the USA.

Nationally, Florida is now registering one in five Covid-19 infections.

Currently, this state only publicly reports cases and deaths once a week and last Friday, it reported 21,683 new infections of coronavirus.

On Saturday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this was the highest one-day total in the state since the start of the pandemic, and that in the previous seven days, they added 110,477 cases. Across the country, weekly cases were almost 545,000, according to Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg.

The previous peak in Florida was on Jan. 7, when the state reported 19,334 cases, according to the CDC, before there was widespread access to coronavirus vaccines.

In Florida, the rate of positives is now18.1%, more than double the national average of 7.8%. The state also currently has the highest number of daily hospital admissions in the entire pandemic., According to the CDC. New income has increased by more than 50% from the previous week, he said.

For now, Governor Ron DeSantis, considered a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2024, wants to keep the state free from most of the restrictions that had been applied to contain the spread of the virus, including the indication of the use of jugular.

“I just want to say that in Florida there won’t be any closures, there will be no school closures “, he told his supporters on Friday. “Floridians have been, are and will continue to be free to choose what is best for them and their families.”

While some companies have reimposed their own chinstrap policies. Like the Walt Disney Co., the largest theme park operator in the world, which once again demands its use in all indoor facilities of its parks in Florida, as well as in California, after being withdrawn for vaccinated hosts in early summer as inoculations increased across the country.

Ford Motor Co. has also reinstated face covering requirements for certain workers at facilities, including those in the Sunshine State.

In early July, Florida asked the United States Supreme Court to release the cruise industry from the CDC’s “set of preconditions” before ships could resume navigation, saying the regulations had already cost the state tens of millions of dollars in port revenues. and other costs.