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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – As is the case with the rest of the state, Orange County is seeing more and more COVID-19 patients with the numbers hitting a height the area hasn’t seen in weeks.
The director of the Department of Health in Orange County Dr. Raul Pino broke down the figures using charts and graphs illustrating where we are versus where we were in weeks prior dating back to around May 4.
As of Thursday, Orange County has had 2,678 cases since the virus was first detected here in March, according to data from the Florida Department of Health.
Right now, during week 24 of the year, the incidence rate per 100,000 is 24.1, which is the highest the area has seen since the pandemic began. The former record was an incident rate of 21.4 positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people during the week of March 23.
“We are on our way up, there is no other way to describe it,” Pino said.
The daily case count for Wednesday was also up noticeably from the days prior.
“You see how we slowly have increased our number to the point today that we have seen a significant increase with regard to the prior days. That is also something that we are looking at and taking into account,” Pino said.
He noted that 21% of those diagnosed lately have been asymptomatic, which is about double what it once was, half of the new cases are people between 20 and 40 years old and the median patient age in Orange