{"id":22982,"date":"2022-06-06T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=22982"},"modified":"2022-06-06T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T19:49:04","slug":"20-4-increase-in-covid-cases-in-polk-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/06\/06\/20-4-increase-in-covid-cases-in-polk-county\/","title":{"rendered":"20.4% increase in COVID cases in Polk County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"703\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19.jpg 900w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-768x600.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New infections of COVID-19 and the positivity rate&nbsp;continue to rise in Polk County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The county registered 2,116 new infections in a bi-weekly report issued Friday by the Florida Department of Health. That represented an increase of 20.4% from the previous report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The update, based on figures from May 27 to June 2, listed the positivity rate for Polk County at 14.8%, an increase from 12.9% two weeks earlier. The figures reflect positive results of new testing for COVID-19 in the county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now includes Polk among 23 Florida counties with a high rate of community prevalence of COVID-19. CDC guidelines say that residents and visitors in those counties should wear masks while in public indoor spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New infections of COVID-19 and the positivity rate&nbsp;continue to rise in Polk County. The county registered 2,116 new infections in a bi-weekly report issued Friday by the Florida Department of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[2951],"class_list":["post-22982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-20-4-increase-in-covid-cases-in-polk-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}