Florida Department of Health reports over 12,000 new COVID-19 cases

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Here are four things to know about COVID-19 on Thursday. Click the blue headline for full story:

1. Orange County parents have more time to choose a school learning option: Friday was supposed to be the deadline for parents to choose which learning option their children would enroll in for the upcoming semester but Orange County Public Schools has decided to give parents more time. Now, parents will have until 5 p.m. Monday to decide whether they’d like to opt for face-to-face learning, Orange County Virtual School or the OCPS LaunchED@Home Model, which is a distance learning model that mirrors the curriculum and seat time of the in-person method.

Parents of Central Florida students can find everything they need to know about their district’s back-to-school plan at ClickOrlando.com/backtoschool.

2. Holly Hill mayor tests positive for COVID-19: Holly Hill mayor Chris Via announced he has tested positive for COVID-19. He had to get a second coronavirus test after results from his first test never came. It has been 17 days since his first COVID-19 test, the results were from his second test. Mayor Via said he was in contact with someone who had the virus. Via said he feels great now, but at one point he was feeling exhausted, had headaches and was experiencing shortness of breath.

3. Floridians want statewide mask policy: A vast majority of Floridians support requiring that people wear face masks in public to reduce the spread of COVID-19 — a measure neither Gov. Ron DeSantis nor the Brevard County Commission will support. The newly released Quinnipiac University Poll of registered voters in Florida indicates that 79% say people in Florida should be required to wear face masks in public, according to News 6 partner Florida Today. DeSantis said he will not support such a move.

4. New stimulus package: Americans making less than $75,000 a year are poised to receive another $1,200 stimulus payment from the federal government, according to a report by The Hill. The Hill report claims a top senate negotiator confirmed the information to the american news website. In the same report, it shows that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters that the payout method would be the same as the previous stimulus package.

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Here’s a county-by-county breakdown of coronavirus numbers in the Central Florida region:

The Associated Press contributed to this report.