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Florida News That Impacts You – July 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 CDC’s no-sail & conditional sail rules remain in place entering this week as the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a previous ruling which would have ended the CDC’s mandates over the cruise industry yesterday. The 2-1 decision will keep the rules in place until the case can be heard before the court.
- After entering July averaging only around 1,200 new COVID-19 cases per day, Florida’s weekly trend for average cases now exceeds 6,000 daily over the past week. This includes 8,490 new cases on Saturday, the highest daily total since mid-April and second highest since January. Variants are now the dominate strain of COVID-19 with 52% of recent cases resulting from them according to Yale’s School of Public Health. Related...
- According to a new report of Florida’s vaccination rates by county, Miami-Dade has the 2nd highest rate of COVID-19 vaccinations, Broward, is 10th, Martin County is 13th and Palm Beach County is 14th. Sumter County leads the state in total vaccinations.
- In Governor DeSantis’s visit to Texas to monitor the work of Florida’s law enforcement personnel assisting with the crisis at the southern border, he said 70% of those interdicted are coming to Florida.