Florida is set to shut its coronavirus testing centers today as it braces itself for Tropical Storm Isaias, but the closures come 1 day after the state witnessed a record 216 deaths
coronavirus cases. Florida overtook New York over the weekend to become the state with the second highest number of infections to date after California.Florida is struggling to contain the crisis, with the state consistently breaking records for daily deaths and rising infections. On Wednesday, the state hit a second straight day of record deaths, with 216 people dying of the virus, after 186 the previous day.
That was the highest number of deaths seen since May 21. However, Wednesday’s figures are far lower than deaths seen at the peak of the crisis in New York, which at one point saw more than 1,000 deaths in one day, and an average of 750 in one day, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was slow to enact social distancing measures at the start of the surge in the state, and has resisted calls for a statewide mask mandate even as individuals counties have acted.
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