Here are the latest coronavirus (COVID-19) statistics available for Florida and our area counties, as of 11:30 a.m. Sept. 18.  The next update will be 11:30 a.m. tomorrow. (Sign up for our Coronavirus Newsletter, which arrives in your e-mail each morning and has the latest local and national/international news.)

Florida

Total Cases: 677,660 (Up 3,204 in the past 24 hours)

Positive Florida Residents: 669,684

Florida Deaths: 13,225 (Up 139 in the past 24 hours)

Sarasota County

Total Cases: 7,795 (Up by 43 in the past 24 hours)

Residents: 7,730

Non-Residents: 65

Demographics of Cases

Age Range: 0 to 104

Men: 3,546

Women: 4,068

Conditions and Care

Deaths: 246 (Up by 1 in the past 24 hours)

Hospitalizations: 583* 

Charlotte County

Total Cases: 2,922 (Up by 21 in the past 24 hours)

Residents: 2,915

Non-Residents: 7

Demographics of Cases

Age Range: 0 to 101

Men: 1,355

Women: 1,549

Conditions and Care

Deaths: 131 (Up by 0 in the past 24 hours)

Hospitalizations: 370*

DeSoto County

Total Cases: 1,543 (Up by 3 in the past 24 hours)

Residents: 1,540

Non-Residents: 3

Demographics of Cases

Age Range: 0 to 97

Men: 907

Women: 629

Conditions and Care

Deaths: 23 (Up by 0 in the past 24 hours)

Hospitalizations: 120*

Lee County

Total Cases: 19,807 (Up by 74 in the past 24 hours)

Residents: 19,501

Non-Residents: 305

Demographics of Cases

Age Range: 0 to 103

Male: 9,113

Female: 10,276

Conditions and Care

Deaths: 459 (Up by 2 in the past 24 hours)

Hospitalizations: 1,453*

* This is the Florida Department of Health's definition of "hospitalizations": "Includes residents and non-residents. “Hospitalizations” is a count of all laboratory confirmed cases in which an inpatient hospitalization occurred at any time during the course of illness. These people may no longer be hospitalized. This number does not represent the number of COVID-19 positive persons currently hospitalized. We do not have a figure for that information at this time."

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