Orange County saw its highest jump in COVID-19 on Wednesday since the pandemic started, with 554 more positive cases.
About 58% of all the positive cases have been diagnosed in the past 13 days, officials said. Those cases include almost 90 Orlando Fire Department firefighters. At least one 22-yearold Orange County firefighter is in the hospital with COVID-19, officials said.
Overall, 168 people are in the hospital in Orange County, and 35 in the ICU. The number of deaths also went up Wednesday to 56, compared to 48 reported in Orange County on Monday.
A 40-year-old woman who died only spent one day in the hospital, officials said.