OKEECHOBEE – Okeechobee County has 122 positive COVID-19 cases, according to the Florida Department of Health June 5 report. The positive range in age from 2 to 87 years olds. Twelve people in …
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OKEECHOBEE – Okeechobee County has 122 positive COVID-19 cases, according to the Florida Department of Health June 5 report. The positive range in age from 2 to 87 years olds. Twelve people in Okeechobee have been hospitalized due to COVID-19.
Of the positive cases, 14% are Black, 77% White and 8% unknown or mixed race. Fifty-one of the positive cases (42%) are Hispanic.
The county has 1,842 tests and a positivity rate of 6.2%.
At the June 4 meeting of the Okeechobee County Commission, Tiffany Collins of the Okeechobee Health Department said that as Florida reopens businesses, people are going back to work and increasing their chance of exposure. Children, who were out of school for the fourth quarter of the school year, are being exposed to the virus when their parents bring it home.
She said everyone should wear cloth face masks in public places, especially in places where they cannot maintain 6 feet of social distance space between themselves and others. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the virus is most easily spread in droplets of moisture that leave your mouth and nose when you talk, cough or sneeze. A cloth masks catches those droplets so they do not land on others or on surfaces others may touch. CDC data indicates many people who are contagious have no symptoms and do not know they have the virus.
Frequent, thorough hand washing is also important to control the spread of the virus.
The Florida Department of Health state report, which lists positive results by county, shows the following for Okeechobee County, as of June 5:
• April 1: 41-year-old male (tested in Tampa but has permanent address in Okeechobee County);
• April 2: 33-year-old female;
• April 4: 74-year-old man (non-resident, does not have permanent address in Florida, was tested in Okeechobee County);
• April 6: 61-year-old female;
• April 7: 66-year-old female;
• April 17: 76-year-old female;
• April 19: 46-year-old female;
• April 21: 62-year-old female;
• April 23: 48-year-old female;
• April 26: 52-year-old female;
• April 29: 61-year-old male;
• April 30: 27-year-old male;
• May 2: 18-year-old male;
• May 2: 52-year-old male;
• May 3: 6-year-old male;
• May 3: 87-year-old female;
• May 3: 17-year-old male;
• May 5: 33-year-old male;
• May 6: 33-year-old female;
• May 6: 44-year-old female;
• May 7: 22-year-old male;
• May 7: 28-year-old female;
• May 7: 50 year-old female.
• May 9: 34-year-old female;
• May 10: 6-year-old male
• May 13: 65-year-old female
• May 13: 15-year-old male;
• May 13: 58-year-old female;
• May 13: 18-year-old male;
• May 13: 16-year-old male;
• May 13: 16-year-old male;
• May 13: 18-year-old male;
• May 14: 17-year-old male;
• May 16: 33-year-old female;
• May 16: 42-year-old male;
• May 17: 48-year-old female;
