The Florida Department of Health reports 2,908 new COVID-19 cases for Oct. 8. That brings the total to 728,921 coronavirus cases statewide since March.
The health department also reported another 118 Floridians have died after testing positive for COVID-19. That brings the total to 15,186 Floridians and 186 non-residents who have died from the virus since the pandemic began.
Those numbers do not necessarily mean those people died Thursday but rather the state learned of their deaths and added the numbers to the report that day. The state's line-by-line report, which you can read here, lists coronavirus deaths by the date the people tested positive for the virus, not the date they passed.
With 75,582 tests returned from labs through Oct. 8, 4.13 percent came back positive.
