BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — The numbers just won’t stabilize in Florida or in Palm Beach County.
Let’s start with the entire state, where after 610 new cases were reported on April 14th — potentially signaling a downward turn, April 15th brought 938 new cases. The total in Florida now: 23,340 cases with 668 deaths.
In Palm Beach County, 1,867 is the number of confirmed positive cases with the death county now up to 112. There are — or have been — a total of 325 hospitalizations. The Health Department is now providing us with a bit more in the way of demographics. By race, 213 people who identify as “black” are infected while 675 are identified as “white.” 127 are listed as “other.” A whopping 44 percent — 801 people — are “unknown.”
We now have ethnicity information: 218 people in Palm Beach County who are positive for COVID-19 identify as “Hispanic,” 757 identify as “non-hispanic,” while 841 are “unknown.”
The infection count in Boca Raton is now 304, it’s 247 in Delray Beach and 239 in Boynton Beach.
