Florida News that impacts you – March 19th, 2021
Bottom Line: Your daily recap of the some of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you in South Florida.
- The Florida Department of Health reported 5,093 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday. The weekly trend for daily cases remains below 4,500 daily – the lowest since November 4th.
- Nearly 7 million total doses of a COVID vaccine have been administered to nearly 4.6 million Floridians according to Thursday’s Vaccine Report from the FDOH. This includes 2.55 million Floridians who’ve completed a vaccine schedule. Related...
- Governor DeSantis said Florida won’t require vaccine passports to visit our state or mandate it to attend events in our state. Notably the South Beach Food and Wine Festival in Miami, scheduled to start May 20th - has mandated proof of a vaccination and recent negative COVID-19 test to attend.
- Matt Jones leads the Honda Classic at nine under par, which tied the course record, after the first day’s action and leads by three strokes heading into today’s second round.
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