Pinellas County adds 543 Covid-19 cases, 1 new death
December 10, 2020 - The Florida Department of Health reported 543 new cases of Covid-19 in Pinellas County Thursday. There's now a cumulative total of 36,426 confirmed cases in Pinellas since March, when the state began reporting on the pandemic. A total of 942 people in Pinellas have died as a result of the virus, according to the health department, including one new death reported Thursday. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration said 220 people were hospitalized in Pinellas County Thursday afternoon with a primary diagnosis of Covid, an increase from the 213 people hospitalized on Wednesday with Covid. About 27 percent of the hospital beds in the county remain available. The positivity rate - or percent of people who take a Covid test and test positive - was 6.95 percent on Wednesday and has averaged 6.4 percent over the past two weeks.