New figures show there were 8,900 new diagnoses and 120 deaths from the virus in the last 24 hours, bringing the state total to 333,000 cases.
Scores of hospitals have run out of ICU beds across Florida, as Governor Ron DeSantis, right, faces growing criticism over his coronavirus response
More than a quarter of all tests performed in Miami-Dade are coming back positive, with 18% of Covid-19 tests taken in Broward County returning a positive result. Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has been condemned for crowing about his apparent success at avoiding a large number of cases in May, only to be proven spectacularly wrong when diagnoses began to rocket towards the end of last month.
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