Florida Dept of Health
May 28, 2020
The State of Florida Issues COVID-19 Updates
The State of Florida is responding to COVID-19. In an effort to keep Florida residents and visitors safe and aware regarding the status of the virus, the Florida Department of Health will continue to issue this update every day through Phase 1 of Florida’s reopening plan. Once the state moves into Phase 2, DOH will provide this update once per week. However, DOH will continue to update the COVID-19 dashboard and post the state report daily.
Governor Ron DeSantis is in constant communication with Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz and State Surgeon General Dr. Scott Rivkees as the State of Florida continues to monitor and respond to the threat of COVID-19.
Today, Governor DeSantis announced the Florida Disaster Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday begins tomorrow. During this time, critical supplies for hurricane preparedness such as water, medicine, flashlights, batteries and generators, are tax free.
More information on qualifying items can be found here.
Nassau County Emergency Management: As of 11am, May 28th, FDOH Nassau has logged two new cases with positive COVID-19 tests conducted in the county.
The first is a 20-year-old male resident with unknown travel-related exposure or contact to a confirmed case.
The second case is a 39-year-old male without known contact to a confirmed case or travel-related exposure.
FDOH epidemiologists conduct case investigations and contact-tracing on ALL positive cases. The positive individuals will remain in isolation until released by Public Health. This brings the total case count to date to 74 (67 Nassau residents) with 54 released from isolation.
Nassau County Coronavirus cases in Zip Code 32034 is 27.
