Pinellas County adds 500+ Covid cases for second consecutive day
December 12, 2020 - More than 1,000 newly confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Pinellas County in the past two days. The Florida Department of Health reported 536 new cases in Pinellas on Friday, one day after the health department reported 543 new cases in Pinellas. Through the end of day Friday, there's been a cumulative total of 36,962 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Pinellas County since the state began reporting on the pandemic in March. A total of 943 deaths in Pinellas have been attributed to the virus since March, including one new death reported on Friday. The positivity rate, or percent of Covid-19 tests with a positive result, was 7.4 percent on Thursday, the last day for which results are available, and have averaged 6.65 percent over the past two weeks. As of noon Saturday, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration said 198 people were hospitalized in Pinellas County with a primary diagnosis of Covid-19. Just over 31 percent of the hospital beds and 19 percent of the adult intensive care beds in the county remain available.