Pinellas COVID-19 update: More than 1,000 new cases in two days
June 27, 2020 - Eight additional deaths from COVID-19 were reported in Pinellas County Saturday morning. Pinellas County now has reported a total of 149 deaths and a total of 5,713 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since early March, including 614 newly confirmed cases reported on Saturday. Those new cases, combined with 430 new cases reported on Friday, total 1,044 new cases confirmed in just two days, including both Florida and non-Florida residents, according to data from the Florida Department of Health. Over the past 14 days, the percent of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 has averaged 10.4 percent, with results from 31,834 lab tests received since June 13.