In the days and weeks before they got sick, Florida's travelers visited cultural meccas like France, Japan, Egypt and Israel.
Spain, UK and France are top foreign destinations
Italy, the first European country to see massive outbreaks of the virus and a nation that many experts see as a bellwether for the U.S., was not one of the Top 10 foreign destinations for Florida travelers who later tested positive for COVID-19. It was a travel destination for 23 people in Florida who contracted the virus.Florida's travel data didn't include anyone whose travel destination was specifically listed as China, where COVID-19 originated.
And the health department reports don’t capture cases of people who contracted the virus while traveling and either don’t know they’ve been infected or haven't been tested.Broward and Miami-Dade counties, which have had the most cases overall, also have the highest number of travel-related cases, 247 and 224 respectively. But as the virus has spread in South Florida, an increasing number of cases there aren’t travel-related.
Leon was followed by Martin , Marion , Monroe and Brevard as the counties with the highest percentage of travel-related COVID-19 cases.Shapiro, the UF field epidemiologist, said communities that were exposed to the coronavirus first have had more time for community spread to occur.
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