In a press conference Monday morning, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings announced that the county is back in “crisis mode” as the COVID-19 positivity rate moves to nearly 14% with about 1,000 new positive cases per day.

The mayor also noted that 95% of the new positive cases are those who are unvaccinated and is encouraging residents to get their vaccines.

Dr. Raul Pino of the Orange County Florida Department of Health stated that the amount of new daily COVID-19 cases are similar to what was seen in January of this year prior to the vaccine(s) being publicly available to all who wished to receive it.

As of the time of this post, there have been no travel updates issued for those coming to Central Florida from out of town.

Source: WESH