Florida governor Ron DeSantis said 260 workers at the Orlando International Airport have tested positive for the coronavirus after nearly 500 employees were tested.

“[An]Airport in Central Florida had a couple of cases, they did the contract tracing. They looked [at] almost 500 workers [and] 260 people working close together were positive, 52 percent positivity rate on that one,” DeSantis said.

More than 2,780 new cases of coronavirus were reported in Florida on Tuesday.

Florida has more than 80,000 positive COVID-19 tests to date and 2,993 deaths.

The Florida Department of Health reports 5.5 percent of people taking a COVID-19 test have tested positive for the virus.

The NBA plans to resume its season in the Orlando area at Walt Disney World.