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* The NFL is providing free tickets to the Super Bowl for some 7,500 vaccinated health care workers—mostly from Tampa Bay and central Florida—to thank and honor them for their pandemic service.
* The Florida unemployment rate: 6.1 percent. Tampa Bay’s jobless rate: 5.2 percent. Hillsborough County: 6.3 percent.
* “We really believe that over the next few days … we’ll actually cross one million 65-and-up that have gotten shots in the state of Florida,” stated Gov. Ron DeSantis. That’s about 20 percent of the state’s 4.5 million senior citizens.
* Tampa City Council member Charlie Miranda, 80, has tested positive for the caronavirus. Last summer Council member Orlando Gudes came down with the virus and recovered fully.
* Portugal: It has the world’s highest rate of new daily infections and deaths.