Glades County 2nd COVID Death - 5th Highest New Cases

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MOORE HAVEN, FL. UPDATE -- As of Wednesday July 22, Glades county's latest COVID related death is a 51 year old male resident. 

Positive cases have increased to 291 and the county now has the 5th highest number of new cases per 100K people of all Florida counties in the last 7 days.

Glades county has a population of 13,600

Hendry county has 1,441 cases and 32 deaths among it's population of 41,144.

Florida's infection numbers surged again to the highest ever, 396,329 cases including those in anti-virus tests, with 9,745 new cases today, among the highest daily increase ever recorded for Florida.

About 1 in every 53 Floridians now show having or had the virus.

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Florida has the highest 7-day average of new cases per 100,000, followed by Arizona and Alabama as second and third in highest number of new cases per 100K.

As of Monday, July 20 there are 1,401 Hendry county, Florida COVID-19 cases recorded since March 1, or 1 in 29 people in the county testing positive, including cases found in the new anti-body testing.

30 deaths are reported, including 18 from nursing homes. More than 1 in 3 of those individuals tested so far in Hendry had the virus.

In Glades county, Florida, cases increased this week to 288, including the anti-virus test, and 1 death previously reported. More than 50% of individuals tested in Glades were positive. 1 in 47 residents have the virus at the current very low rate of testing in Glades County.

Hendry has the 12th highest 7-day average of new cases per 100,000 people among all Florida counties. Glades county ranked 9th highest. Clewiston had 713 cases, Felda 22, Fort Denaud 11, and LaBelle 487.

Immokalee in nearby Collier county has 1,910 cases, or 1 in 16 people infected in that area.

1 in 37 residents on the LaBelle side of the county have been infected and 1 in 27 on the Clewiston side, the higher Clewiston infections due in part with the high number of agricultural workers living or working in close quarters and not able to implement physical distancing. Three out of four Hendry county cases are Hispanic.