APRIL 8, 2020

As of April 8th, 2020, there have been a total of 5,461 positive cases of coronavirus within Miami-Dade County, with 383 hospitalizations and 50 deaths. May those who have fallen due to this terrible pandemic rest in peace.

Total number of cases (Miami-Dade County): 5461

Total hospitalizations: 383

Total number of deaths: 50

New cases in the last 24 hours: 449

Greetings neighbors, this is the Miami Corona Project Daily Update for Wednesday, April 8th, 2020:

Through its continued infiltration across our society, the coronavirus has presented a terrible reality for local Miami residents as well as countless other individuals and communities around the world.

As of yesterday, April 7th, 2020, there have been 5,126 positive cases of coronavirus within Miami-Dade County, with 316 hospitalizations and 47 deaths.

Nationally, the numbers are even more staggering, with 394,857 positive cases of the virus along with 12,748 deaths.

With the growing number of cases both locally and nationally, Miami-Dade County has opted to invest in “mobile-morgues”, refrigerated trucks converted into medical facilities in an attempt to deal with the eventual overload of the deceased within traditional systems.

The difficult implications of the pandemic are currently coming to head, the drastic number of individuals filing unemployment in recent weeks causing Florida’s unemployment website and call center to fail. In turn, the community has been forced to find any way possible to cope, prompting the production and addition of thousands of free forms used in filing for the social service to be available at about half the county’s public libraries.

Let’s hope today brings better news.

ON THIS DAY

According to the Miami Herald, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been reporting to the newspaper for weeks that no detainees in their custody have tested positive for coronavirus. However, detainees who are sick with COVID-19 and were not on their premises but at hospitals, were considered technically not in their care and not included in their confirmed number of cases on its website, as well as third party contractors who work for the detention centers that have tested positive. When ICE sent Congress its new detainee cases, including one 29-year-old Mexican national from Krome Detention Center, it was found that ICE hadn’t reflected these numbers on their website, to which they responded as an oversight.

Quarantines have been established in immigration detention centers throughout South Florida within the last month, but several employees have tested positive for COVID-10 too after visiting the Krome office. In addition, Monroe County detention center in Key West severed its contract with ICE, transferring detainees to and from immigration court in Miami-Dade for federal hearings, making some worry about the transmission of the virus on these trips.

The Miami Herald – Inmate at Krome detention center tests positive for COVID-19. Here’s how ICE kept it quiet