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Coronavirus At-A-Glance 4-17-20

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – New cases of the coronavirus are surfacing every day across the nation and around the world.

Here are the latest numbers and information you need to know at-a-glance as of 6:30 p.m. on April 17, 2020.

FLORIDA: 24,753 confirmed cases

  • Residents: 24,066
  • Deaths: 726
  • Hospitalizations: 3,649
  • All 67 counties reporting confirmed cases
  • People Tested: 241,913
  • Negative Test Results: 215,229
  • Percent positive: 10.3% positive

MIAMI-DADE: 8,824 confirmed cases (largest number in the state)

  • Residents: 8,741, Residents Not in Florida: 1, Non-Residents: 78
  • Deaths: 195
  • Hospitalizations: 49,818
  • Negative: 42,306, Awaiting Results: 224, Inconclusive: 164

BROWARD: 3,688 confirmed cases

  • Residents: 3,572, Non-Residents: 116
  • Deaths: 107
  • Hospitalizations: 612
  • Total Tests: 31,405
  • Negative: 27,682, Awaiting Results: 66, Inconclusive: 35

MONROE: 66 confirmed cases

  • Residents: 68, Non-Residents: 7
  • Deaths: 3
  • Hospitalizations: 9
  • Total Tests: 888
  • Negative: 820, Awaiting Results: 31, Inconclusive: 0

These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard and are updated twice daily.

UNITED STATES: 699,105 confirmed cases

  • Deaths: 36,507 (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)

 AROUND THE WORLD: 2,224,426 confirmed cases

  • Deaths: 153,177
  • 185 countries/regions affected

 

TO AVOID GETTING SICK

  • Wash your hands often for at least 20 seconds
  • Use alcohol-based hand sanitizer
  • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, mouth and face
  • Avoid close contact with people who are sick or exhibit symptoms
  • Stay home when you are sick
  • Cough and sneeze into your elbow, not your hands
  • Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you sneeze, then throw out the tissue and wash your hands
  • Disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces
  • Evaluate your travel plans as conditions warrant; you should rethink traveling to areas that are already under a travel advisory or areas that are experiencing an outbreak of Coronavirus
  • Currently, there is no vaccine to protect against the coronavirus and no medications to treat it.

SYMPTOMS

  • Mild to severe respiratory illness
  • Fever
  • Cough
  • Shortness of breath
  • For those with a weakened immune system, the elderly and the very young, there's a chance the virus could cause a lower, and much more serious, respiratory tract illness like a pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure

CLICK HERE to see an interactive dashboard showing real-time data of confirmed cases and deaths. Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering created a map that provides the most accurate international tracking of the outbreak of coronavirus, or COVID-19.

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