The Florida Health Department is reporting 58 positive cases of COVID-19 in Monroe County as of this afternoon. Of those, 52 are local residents and six non-Florida residents.
Twenty-three cases are community-acquired, while 22 are travel-related and 13 under investigation.
Local case numbers:
Key West – 27
Key Largo – 12
Tavernier – 5
Marathon – 3
Islamorada -1
Key Colony Beach -1
Summerland Key – 1
Missing City – 2 (Note that city is not always received as part of the initial notification and may be missing while the case is being investigated.)
As for testing in Monroe County, 556 results have come back negative, while 107 await results. A total of 614 have been tested to date.
As of this morning, there are 18,494 total Florida cases. While Florida’s testing has increased over the past week, the percent of those testing positive for COVID-19 overall is 11 percent. Of the 10,622 tests performed on April 10, there were 1,401 positive results, or 13 percent.
