April 28 update: 2 deaths, 255 cases so far in Alachua County

BY JENNIFER CABRERA

According to the state dashboard, Alachua County now has 255 COVID-19-positive cases, up from 254 yesterday. 2 deaths have been reported.

This chart shows the long-term care cases in Alachua County (the top line of numbers shows totals for the state):

Available bed capacity in Alachua County is 33.61%.

The state has 32,846 cases (an increase of 708 from yesterday) and 1,171 deaths (an increase of 83 from yesterday).

The state is also now publishing a chart of the percentage of new tests that are positive by day:

Dade County has 37% of the state’s cases. Broward has 15%; Palm Beach 9%; and Orange 4%. Alachua County represents about 1.2% of the state’s population and 0.78% of the state’s cases.

6,631 people have been tested so far in Alachua County (up 99 from yesterday), and 6,369 tests have come back negative, so 96% of the tests so far have been negative. Only 3.8% of the local tests have come back positive so far, and 1% of yesterday’s tests came back positive.

According to the daily report (note that the data in that report and the dashboard don’t always match up because they are published at different times), there are 197 cases in Gainesville, 12 in Alachua, 10 in Newberry, 7 in Hawthorne, 5 in High Springs, 4 in Waldo, 3 in Micanopy, 3 in Tioga, 1 in LaCrosse, 1 in Santa Fe, and 1 in Archer. Location data is not available for all cases.

Case by zip code

32044: 0 cases

32601: 41 cases

32603: <5 cases

32605: 22 cases

32606: 10 cases

32607: 26 cases

32608: 46 cases

32609: 23 cases

32610: <5 cases

32611: 0 cases

32615: 12 cases

32618: <5 cases

32622: 0 cases

32631: 0 cases

32640: 7 cases

32641: 13 cases

32643: 5 cases

32653: 11 cases

32666: 0 cases

32667: <5 cases

32669: 13 cases

32694: <5 cases