Florida Department of Health Updates New COVID-19 Cases, Announces Fifty-Five Deaths Related to COVID-19

TALLAHASSEE —The Florida Department of Health (DOH), in order to provide more comprehensive data, releases a report on COVID-19 cases in Florida once per day. The DOH COVID-19 dashboard is also providing updates once per day. The state also provides a report detailing surveillance data for every Florida county, which is available here.

Test results for more than 39,300 individuals were reported to DOH as of midnight, on Monday, June 15. Today, as reported at 11 a.m., there are:

  • 2,783 new positive COVID-19 cases (2,740 Florida residents and 43 non-Florida residents)
  • 55 Florida resident deaths related to COVID-19

On June 15, 7.4 percent of new cases** tested positive.

There are a total of 80,109 Florida cases*** with 2,993 deaths related to COVID-19.

Since data reported at 11 a.m. on June 16, the deaths of fifty-five Florida residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have been reported in Brevard, Dade, Duval, Gadsden, Hardy, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Orange, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Sarasota, St. Lucie and Volusia counties.

Florida long-term care facility data:

  • The list of long-term care facilities with active COVID-19 cases is available here
  • The list of long-term care facilities with deaths is available here, which is updated weekly.
  • To date, 1,578 individuals that were staff or residents of a long-term care facility have died. 

The antibody COVID-19 test results report will be provided once a week and contains county, race and lab information on antibody COVID-19 tests conducted in Florida. The report for antibody tests conducted by private health care providers is available here and the report for antibody tests conducted at state-supported COVID-19 testing sites is available here.

More information on a case-by-case basis can also be found here.

junupdate* Florida residents that are diagnosed with COVID-19 and isolated out of state are not reflected on the Florida map.

**This percentage is the number of people who test positive for the first time divided by all tests, excluding people who have previously tested positive.

***Total cases overview includes positive cases in Florida residents and non-Florida residents tested in Florida.