COVID-19 Tampa Bay

Thursday's report from the Department of Health shows over 9,000 people tested positive for the coronavirus statewide.

The positivity rate for first-time COVID-19 tests has been over 7% for the past ten days.

Deaths attributed to the coronavirus on Tuesday totaled 86; roughly double the number from the day before.

Manatee County recorded the deaths of 13 people due to coronavirus complications, the highest for a single day since August 10, when 35 people died.

Coronavirus continues its steady upward climb in Florida. With nearly 38,000 new cases this week, the state has added about 5,000 more new cases each week since mid-October.

The positivity rate for first-time COVID tests was over six percent for the eleventh straight day Thursday.

Monday was the third straight day that statewide hospitalizations due to the virus increased by at least 100. Last week, daily hospitalization increases were largely in the double digits.

New coronavirus infections in Florida shot up Thursday with 6,257 people testing positive since Wednesday - 1,824 more than the day before.

The number of people testing positive for the coronavirus was over 4,000 for the fourth straight day Wednesday.

Health officials reported 46 people died due to complications from the coronavirus since Sunday's report, and that pushed the statewide death toll past 17,000.

The state reported 4,865 news positive tests since Saturday on more than 123,000 tests, with a positivity rate of 4.32%.

The state recorded 2,331 new daily positive coronavirus tests, its lowest total in nearly two weeks, but with its highest positivity rate in a similar time span.