Florida News that impacts you – April 5th, 2021
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- The overall daily trend for new COVID-19 cases has increased by just over 300 per day over a week ago. Florida’s averaged 5,403 new cases per day over the past week that’s up nearly a thousand cases per day over mid-March.
- 6.3 million Floridians have been vaccinated based on Sunday’s vaccine report from the Florida Department of Health. This includes 3.4 million who’ve now completed the series. This week Florida’s receiving over 800,000 doses of vaccines – the most in a week to date. Related...
- Florida’s four FEMA operated vaccination sites – in Miami, Orlando, Tampa and Jacksonville will only administer the one-dose Johnson& Johnson vaccine. The decision was made by FEMA as Florida is set to receive 300,000 doses of the J&J vaccine this week.
- Governor DeSantis signed an executive order banning vaccine passports in Florida. The ban applies to businesses in addition to government entities. Governor DeSantis said the requirement would create two classes of citizens and erode medical privacy rights.
- Today is the first day Floridians 18 and older are eligible for vaccination in Florida. Additionally, those 16 and older are now eligible at the FEMA operated sites. This comes as Florida’s experienced a surge of new COVID-19 cases with those under 40, coinciding with the Spring Break timeline.
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