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We'll update this story throughout the day with the latest news about coronavirus and its effects in Florida.
Florida's confirmed cases of COVID-19 have surpassed 1,400, according to Tuesday's midday update from the state Department of Health.
The state added 185 additional positive novel coronavirus cases and is now at 1,412. Statewide, the death toll increased one to 18.
South Florida continues to be the epicenter for the outbreak, with more than half of the state's cases coming out of Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. Of the state's 1,412 confirmed cases of COVID-19, 750 come from those three counties — Miami-Dade (338), Broward (311) and Palm Beach (101).
As of Monday evening, three people who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Broward County have died. Three also have died in both Duval and Palm Beach counties. There have also been deaths reported in Clay County (2), Lee County (2), Orange County (2), Manatee County, and Santa Rosa County. The ages of the deceased range from 68 to 96.
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Under the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis, the state Department of Health will update numbers twice daily, at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.
COVID-19 symptoms can be all or nothing: ‘This virus just has the whole kit and caboodle’
9:33 a.m. March 24
People who contract COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus sweeping the globe, can experience a broad range of symptoms and have very different experiences.
Some have no symptoms at all. By far the largest group present with fever and other symptoms. Most will get better on their own. About 15% of those infected go on to have severe illness and must be hospitalized. Another 5% become so ill that they must be treated in an intensive care unit.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis asking President Trump to declare Florida major disaster
March 23
Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a letter to President Donald Trump formally requesting that he declare a major disaster as Florida responds to COVID-19.
The letter requested the inclusion of the following Individual Assistance Programs in the declaration: Disaster Unemployment Assistance, Crisis Counseling, Community Disaster Loans and the Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Program.
The declaration is submitted as a result of the COVID-19 response for the incident period beginning Jan. 20, for all 67 counties. In addition to the Individual Assistance Programs, the declaration requests additional resources and support from FEMA.
TSA agents at 2 Florida airports have tested positive for COVID-19
8 a.m. March 24
Twenty-five TSA screening agents at 10 U.S. airports have tested positive for coronavirus, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Those numbers include four agents at Orlando International Airport and two at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International.
The DHA announced Monday the tally of total TSA employees who tested positive had reached 30, including five "non-screening employees who have relatively limited interaction with the traveling public." The first TSA case was confirmed at the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport in late February.
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Inmate: Dorm at South Bay Correctional under quarantine
7:15 a.m. March 24
An inmate at a South Florida private prison said his dorm is under quarantine after a fellow inmate began exhibiting flu-like symptoms Friday.
Michael Edwards, a current inmate at South Bay Correctional Institution in Palm Beach County, told The News-Press and Naples Daily News an inmate in a separate section of his dorm was isolated and tested for the novel coronavirus while the rest of the dorm was placed under quarantine.
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Gov. DeSantis rejects sheltering in place
6:33 p.m. March 23
As the number of known cases of coronavirus surged past the 1,200 mark Monday afternoon, Gov. Ron DeSantis said he will not be imposing a statewide shutdown of nonessential businesses or ordering Floridians to shelter in place.
Instead, he announced that all airline passengers coming to Florida from New York and New Jersey — but not car or rail passengers — will be ordered to self-quarantine for 14 days.
"Given our circumstances, it isn't advisable. It's a blunt instrument," DeSantis said of a stay-at-home order, in a surprise afternoon press briefing in his office at the Florida Capitol, to which a select number of reporters were invited to attend.
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Field hospital coming to Jacksonville
11:40 a.m. March 23
Florida emergency management director Jared Moskowitz said at a news conference Monday that a field hospital is on its way to Jacksonville, one of a few being set up across the state.
“We don’t see a need for folks to go to a field hospital, but we want to have that up and running,” he said.
Field hospitals are being established to handle overflow patients in the event local hospitals become overcrowded. The field hospitals are typically handling non-coronavirus patients because patients infected with the virus need intensive-care beds equipped with negative-pressure ventilation that contains airflow in each room.
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SWFL's largest hospitals operators quarantine 180 employees
5:56 p.m. March 23
Lee Health and NCH Healthcare System, the region's largest hospital operators, said Monday that 180 of their employees are quarantined because of possible exposure to the COVID-19 coronavirus. None have tested positive.
And while the two hospital systems say they have enough supplies and personnel, both continued their pleas to the public for donations of critically needed blood as well as gowns, masks of any kind and even cleaning supplies.
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Florida shuts down all 175 state parks
6:29 a.m. March 23
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is shutting the state’s 175 parks to reduce the potential spreading of the coronavirus.
The move, announced late Sunday, came at the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis to uphold recent social distancing guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control.
All state parks will be closed indefinitely beginning March 23.
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What are the symptoms of coronavirus?
Symptoms can range from mild to severe, and some people don't have any symptoms at all. The most common symptoms resemble the flu and include fever, tiredness and dry cough. Some people also develop aches and pains, nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat or diarrhea.
Patients with COVID-19 have had mild to severe respiratory illness with symptoms of fever, cough and shortness of breath, the Centers for Disease Control said.
About 1 in 6 people becomes seriously ill and develops difficulty breathing, according to the World Health Organization. If you experience fever, cough and shortness of breath, call your doctor.
Symptoms may appear anywhere between two to 14 days after exposure, with the average patient seeing onset at around five days, according to the CDC.
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