Florida reported 2,124 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday and increased its total death count by 887, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

The new deaths came over the past couple of weeks because deaths are counted on the day they occur, not the day they are reported. It can take two weeks or more for a death to be reflected in the data and state has been releasing the death counts twice a week.

The average for new cases is down to 3,052 as of Tuesday and the average for deaths based on the date reported was 240. There have been 3,611,767 confirmed cases of COVID in the state and at least 57,300 Floridians have died since the start of the pandemic.

Hospitalizations have been dropping since they peaked in mid-August. As of Tuesday, 3,307 patients were in Florida hospitals with COVID-19, a 27.5% decline from the previous week and the fewest patients since mid-July.