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Two deaths in Florida attributed to COVID-19

By Washington Examiner
Published March 9, 2020 6:00pm ET
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Two deaths in Florida attributed to COVID-19
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The Florida Department of Health announced late Friday night that two people have died from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

One of the confirmed dead is a Santa Rosa County man in his 70s, whose positive COVID-19 test was revealed Thursday. The other death is an individual in their 70s from Lee County who had traveled internationally. The individual’s presumptive positive COVID-19 test had not been previously announced.

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