LEON COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) — The Florida Department of Health in Leon County has confirmed that Leon County's newest case of COVID-19 is a 21-year-old woman.
All they can say is that the newest patient is a 21-year-old woman. They did not say where the woman has been treated.
No other information is available at this time.
FDOH-Leon believes the patient will be listed as a Leon County resident, meaning the county's total will go up to nine.
However, they say the dashboard/daily COVID report is based on provisional data and is likely to change as more information about the patient is obtained.
Leon County's cases before the newest case are reported as follows, according to FDOH's latest report:
FL resident: 58-year-old Female; recently traveled to GA; had contact with confirmed case - Reported on 03/18/20
FL resident: 55-year-old Male; recently traveled to GA; had contact with confirmed case - Reported on 03/18/20
FL resident: 40-year-old Female; recently traveled to FL; GA; had contact with confirmed case - Reported on - 03/22/20
FL resident: 31-year-old Female; recently traveled to UNITED KINGDOM; no contact with confirmed case - Reported on 03/24/20
FL resident: 34-year-old Male; recently traveled to NC; unknown contact with confirmed case - Reported on 03/24/20
Non-FL resident: 48-year-old Female; recently traveled to GA; unknown contact with confirmed case - Reported on 03/18/20
Non-FL resident: 36-year-old Male; recently traveled to GA; unknown contact with confirmed case - Reported on 03/21/20
Not diagnosed or isolated in FL: 59-year-old Female; recently traveled to JAPAN; unknown contact with confirmed case - Reported on 03/04/20
Last week, Capital Regional Medical Center confirmed two COVID-19 cases in the county after two patients who visited a Capital Regional free-standing emergency room tested positive for coronavirus.
CRMC announced their positive cases just after Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare announced that a patient it was treating for COVID-19 died.
FDOH reported Leon County's first technical case of COVID-19 when a Leon County resident tested positve for the disease in another state.
