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Coronavirus News
COVID-19 Update: 186 Deaths Overnight; 441,977 Cases In State
TALLAHASSEE --- The Florida Department of Health (DOH) releases a report on COVID-19 cases in Florida once per day. The DOH COVID-19 dashboard is also providing updates.
Test results for more than 90,200 individuals were re- ported to DOH as of midnight, on Monday, July 27. Today, as reported at 11 a.m., there are: 9,230 new positive COVID-19 cases (9,169 Florida residents and 61 non-Florida residents) 186 Florida resident deaths related to COVID-19.
There are a total of 441,977 Florida cases with 6,117 deaths related to COVID-19.
Since July 27, the death of one hundred eighty-six (186) Florida residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have been reported in Bay, Bre- vard, Collier, Dade, Duval,
Escambia, Flagler, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands, Hills- borough, Indian River, Jack- son, Lake, Lee, Manatee, Marion, Martin, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pinel- las, Polk, Putnam, Santa Rosa, Sarasota, Seminole, St. Johns, St. Lucie, Suwannee, Volusia and Wakulla coun- ties.
So far, 2,760 individuals who were staff or residents of long-term care facilities have died.
In Hillsborough County, there has been a total of 28,268 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since March, 2020. Of that number there has been 323 deaths. This does not include deaths that take place in hospitals or long-term care facilities.
The median age of COVID- 19 victims is 36 years.
Teachers Are Organizing To Protest
School Reopenings Before The
Coronavirus Is Under Control
Teachers across the country have begun organizing protests to voice concerns about the Trump administra- tion’s push for schools to re- open in the fall despite the coronavirus pandemic and to pressure school districts to delay the start of face-to-face instruction.
Educators who have been organizing independently in cities across the United States told BuzzFeed News they’re frustrated by the Trump ad- ministration’s campaign to re- turn to school with no national plan to keep teachers and stu- dents from spreading the coro- navirus and little to no funding for personal protective equip- ment.
Organizers from education advocacy movements like Red for Ed, which sparked a na- tional movement for more school funding and better pay for teachers in 2018 and 2019, are focusing on whether and when teachers and students should return to classrooms as coronavirus cases surge.
In school districts across the country, teachers are or- ganizing motor protests at
A middle school teacher protests in front of the Hills- borough County Schools Dis- trict Office on July 16 in Tampa, Florida.
state capitols, writing letters to governors and state legislators, and pressuring school boards to consider delaying the start of in-school instruction until the coronavirus outbreaks begin to subside in their com- munities. And in the weeks leading up to the start of the school year, many teachers have begun voicing concerns about their districts’ lack of plans about keeping them safe if they do return to classrooms.
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