Six New COVID-19 Deaths, 379 New Cases Reported In Escambia County

January 3, 2021

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The Florida Department of Health reported six additional COVID-19 deaths and 379 new cases in Escambia County over the past two days.

The state did not release numbers Friday due to the New Year’s Day holiday.

Here is the latest data for Friday and Saturday:

Escambia County cases:

Total cases: 23,014 (+379)
Non-Florida residents: 2,493
Total deaths: 379 (+6)
Long-term care facility deaths : 165
Current hospitalizations: 198
Number of tests reported last day: 1,347
Percent positive reported last day: 15.3%
Percent positive reported last week: 13.6%

Escambia County cases by location*:

Pensacola: 16,856 (+510*)
Cantonment: 2,005  (+67)
Century: 1,021 (+11)
—-including 774 Century prison inmates
Molino: 279 (+8)
McDavid: 142 (+6)
Walnut Hill: 39
Bellview: 33 (2)
Perdido Key: 17
Gonzalez: 10 (+1)

Santa Rosa County cases:

Total cases: 11,492 (+312)
Non-Florida residents: 143
Total deaths: 13 (+4)
Long-term care facility deaths: 24
Cumulative Hospitalizations: 554*
Number of tests reported day: 461
Percent positive reported last day: 20.0%

Santa Rosa County cases by location*:

Milton: 5,642 (+127)
Navarre: 2,248 (+88)
Gulf Breeze: 2,013 (+51)
Pace: 882 (+32)
Jay: 309 (+11)
Bagdad: 26

Florida cases:

Total cases: 1,354,833
Florida residents: 1,331,059
Deaths: 21,890
Hospitalizations: 63,148*

*“Hospitalizations” in the statewide and Santa Rosa County totals is a count of all laboratory confirmed cases in which an inpatient hospitalization occurred at any time during the course of illness. Most of these people are longer be hospitalized. The FDOH does not provide a count of patients currently hospitalized. The Escambia County number is current data compiled each day from the local hospitals.

**On cases by location, the city is based upon zip code and is not always received as part of the initial notification. There may be a delay in reporting locations as a result, and locations will not total the daily case increase as a result.

***The Florida Department of Health does not have a clear standard or definition of “recovered” and does not report a number of recovered individuals.

**Data Sources: Florida Department of Health, Escambia County, City of Pensacola, local hospitals.

Comments

2 Responses to “Six New COVID-19 Deaths, 379 New Cases Reported In Escambia County”

  1. William Reynolds on January 3rd, 2021 2:04 pm

    >>Why is it that the total for Escambia county of new cases for two days is 379, but when you look at the individual locations in Escambia County the total is over 600. Which set of numbers is correct?

    Both. Read the footnotes. (We even put an *asterisk by the Pensacola increase to draw attention to the footnotes.)

  2. New math? on January 3rd, 2021 10:49 am

    Why is it that the total for Escambia county of new cases for two days is 379, but when you look at the individual locations in Escambia County the total is over 600. Which set of numbers is correct?

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