Two days after recording the nation’s single-day record of 15,283 positive COVID-19 cases, Gov. Ron DeSantis said declining positivity rates indicate Florida “is going in the right direction.”

“We think we have stabilized,” DeSantis said during a Monday evening news conference with Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.

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