News Update for 7/2/20

Latest Numbers released by the Florida Department of Health show Highlands County has registered 15 new positive cases of the Coronavirus and 435 negative test results. The current report shows 9,239 tests done locally. Of those, 8,860 have been negative with 372 positive cases. The severity of those positive cases remains unknown. Florida Department of Continue reading

News Update for 6/30/20

In their report this morning, Florida Department of Health officials say Highlands County has registered five new positive cases of the Coronavirus and 174 negative test results. The current report shows 8,784 tests done locally. Of those, 8,425 have been negative with 350 positive cases. They report that as a 96-percent negative testing rate. The Continue reading

News Update for 6/30/20

Like the rest of the state, as testing continues for the Coronavirus here in Highlands County the numbers continue to rise. At last report, there had been 8,653 tests done locally. Of those, 8,239 have been negative with 345 positive cases. The severity of those positive cases remains unknown. Florida Department of Health officials will Continue reading

News Update for 6/15/20

More Coronavirus testing results came in this morning. There has been one additional positive case and 73 new negatives registered here in Highlands County . There have been 44 people hospitalized at some point during there illness. There have been nine deaths attached to the coronavirus here. To date, there have been 5,722 tests recorded Continue reading

News Update for 6/12/20

The latest Corona virus numbers are out, and as more tests are conducted, there are more positive and more negative results. There are nine new positive and 69 new negative results. That means since testing began several months ago, there have been 169 positive results, and 5,288 negatives recorded. Overall, some 5,460 tests have been Continue reading

News Update for 6/1020

The latest Coronavirus numbers released this morning by the Florida Department of Health show Highlands County has registered three additional positive cases and 69 negative tests. To date there have been 153 positives. Of the 5,296 tests administered so far, 5,140 have come back negative. That’s a 97.1 percent negative rate over the past three Continue reading

News Update for 6/9/20

NEWS 6/9/20 BF CORONAVIRUS SCORECARD Coronavirus numbers released this morning show Highlands County has registered no additional cases of the coronavirus. To date there have been 150 positive cases. Of the 5,244 tests administered so far, 5,091 of the tests have come back negative. That’s a 94.7 percent negative rate over the past three months. Continue reading