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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at C.B. Smith Park, Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Pembroke Pines, Fla. The park will be used for a drive thru COVID-19 testing facility. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

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Gov. DeSantis: New mobile testing sites coming soon

By Tamara Lush | Mar. 22, 2020

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — More than 720 people in Florida have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Saturday as he resisted an official's call to issue a statewide "stay-at-home" order.

In this Feb. 21, 2020 photo, a doctor in a protective suit checks with patients at a temporary hospital at Tazihu gymnasium in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Florida's governor disclosed late Sunday, March 1, that a few people had become the first in his state to test "presumptively positive" for COVID-19 and ordered his top health officer to declare a statewide public health emergency. (Chinatopix via AP)

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Florida has two confirmed cases of new coronavirus

By Tamara Lush | Mar. 2, 2020

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials tried to reassure residents Monday that the risk posed by a new strain of coronavirus remained low, despite revelations that two people had become the first in the state to test positive for the virus.

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