Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will hold a news briefing at noon on Tuesday to address the state’s rapidly increasing coronavirus (COVID-19) cases.
You can watch the briefing live in the video player below at noon.
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Florida has been experiencing one of the most significant spikes in COVID-19 cases in the country over the last few weeks.
The state is reporting an increase of nearly 78,000 COVID-19 cases and nearly 800 additional COVID-19 deaths since last week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Florida reported a weekly increase of nearly 76,000 COVID-19 cases between July 6-13. In comparison, the state of Michigan is reporting a total of 74,152 COVID-19 cases as of July 20.
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The state of Florida reported the country’s highest daily increase of COVID-19 cases on July 12 with 15,299 new cases.
Since the pandemic began in March, 5,072 people have died in Florida of COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins data.
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