Coronavirus in Brevard, June 5: 8 new cases, total at 439; 1,305 new cases in one day in Florida
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Here are updates about coronavirus cases in Brevard, according to the Florida Department of Health, as of June 5, 2020.
Brevard registered eight new coronavirus cases, for a total of 439 people testing positive since the pandemic began, according to Friday morning's state Department of Health data.
There were no new deaths, according to the FDOH.
In all, Brevard has lost 13 people to the coronavirus, and victims ranged in age from 71 to 94 years old.
The FDOH always cautions that its data is provisional and subject to change.
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The Brevard cases involve 428 residents and 11 non-residents. They range in age from 1 to 99 with a median age of 58. Of the Brevard residents, 197 are men and 231 female, FDOH data show.
Brevard County Commissioner Curt Smith said, "As of 8 a.m. Friday morning, four COVID-19 patients were hospitalized in Brevard County, and one of those is on a ventilator. There were 299 labs done on Thursday with a positivity rate of 2.3%."
The county has seen 66 hospitalizations. It's important to note that number does not refer to people currently hospitalized; instead, it's people who sought hospital treatment at some point.
The state DOH does not provide a count of people recovered.
Cases by race
White: 320
Black: 59
Other: 21
Unknown/No data: 28
Cases by ethnicity
Non-Hispanic: 318
Hispanic: 82
Unknown/no data: 28
The number of cases in Florida as of Friday morning was 61,488, up 1,305 from the previous day; 59,993 of those cases are Florida residents, FDOH data show. As of Friday, there have been 2,660 deaths, an increase of 53 from the previous day, and 10,794 hospitalizations. In total, 1,135,865 people have been tested with 61,488 positive and 1,073,452 negative, or 5.4% testing positive.
As of Friday, FDOH data show Brevard had tested 24,698, with 439 testing positive and 24,257 testing negative since the pandemic began. The county's percent positive is 1.8%.
In the U.S., cases totaled 1,875,402 as of Friday, and globally, there have been 6,675,011 cases, FDOH data show. Deaths in the U.S. totaled 108,278, globally 391,848.
To see the dashboard, visit https://floridahealthcovid19.gov.
City by city
Here's the city-by-city count as of Friday, although some of these may include unincorporated areas. Note: Per FDOH, these are provisional.
Total cases in Brevard as of June 5: 439
Melbourne: 130
Cocoa: 83, an increase of 2
Palm Bay: 60, an increase of 1
Titusville: 32, an increase of 1
Merritt Island: 30
Rockledge: 21, an increase of 1
Satellite Beach: 16, an increase of 2
Cocoa Beach: 10
Viera: 10
Indian Harbour Beach: 7
West Melbourne: 6
Mims: 6
Melbourne Beach: 4
Sebastian: 3, an increase of 1
Cape Canaveral: 2
Indialantic: 2
Grant-Valkaria: 1
Malabar: 1
Port St. John: 1
Barefoot Bay: 1
Valkaria: 1
Missing: 12
Zip codes
Within Brevard, these are the zip codes with the most infections, according to the FDOH (data is provisional and subject to change) as of Friday:
• 32922 with 39 cases. That includes all or parts of Cocoa, Rockledge and Cocoa West
• 32940 with 37 cases. That includes all or parts of Palm Shores, Melbourne, Viera East and Viera West
• 32935 with 32 cases. That includes all or parts of Palm Shores and Melbourne
• 32926 with 29 cases. That includes all or parts of Rockledge, Cocoa, Cocoa West, Port St. John and Sharpes
• 32901 with 27 cases, previous FDOH reports show this zip code recorded 41 cases and 29 cases. That includes all or parts of Melbourne, Palm Bay and West Melbourne
• 32907 with 26 cases. That includes all or parts of Palm Bay, Malabar and West Melbourne
• 32955 with 26 cases. That includes parts of Rockledge, Cocoa, Cocoa West, Viera East and Viera West
• 32937 with 26 cases. That includes all or parts of Satellite Beach, Melbourne, Indian Harbour Beach and South Patrick Shores.
• 32780 with 24 cases: That includes all or parts of Titusville and Port St. John
• 32909 with 22 cases. That includes all or parts of Palm Bay, Malabar and Grant-Valkaria
• 32904 with 17 cases. That includes all or parts of Melbourne Village, Melbourne, Palm Bay, West Melbourne and June Park
• 32953 with 17 cases. That includes parts of Titusville and Merritt Island
• 32927 with 16 cases. That includes all or parts of Titusville, Port St. John and Sharpes
• 32934 with 14 cases. That includes all or parts of Melbourne and West Melbourne
• 32952 with 13 cases. That includes parts of Satellite Beach and Merritt Island
• 32905 with 12 cases. That includes all or parts of Melbourne, Palm Bay, Malabar and West Melbourne
• 32931 with 10 cases. That includes all or parts of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach
• 32908 with 10 cases. That includes Palm Bay
• 32796: 7 cases. That includes Titusville
• 32754 with 6 cases. That includes Mims
• 32903 with less than 5 cases. That includes Indialantic, Melbourne, Indian Harbour Beach
• 32920 with less than 5 cases. That includes Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral
• 32949 with less than 5 cases. That includes Malabar, Grant-Valkaria and Micco
• 32950 with less than 5 cases. That includes Palm Bay, Malabar and Grant-Valkaria
• 32951 with less than 5 cases. That includes Indialantic, Melbourne Beach and Micco
• 32976 with less than 5 cases. That includes Grant-Valkaria, Micco and Roseland
Brevard County reported its first COVID-19 case March 16. FLORIDA TODAY began this daily COVID-19 report March 20. Please check the date in the headlines for the most up-to-date info. For questions on these reports, please email Jennifer Sangalang at jsangalang@floridatoday.com or executive editor Mara Bellaby at mbellaby@floridatoday.com.
The FDOH has said data is provisional and subject to change as more information becomes available.
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