New York — Florida on Sunday reported more than 15,000 new Covid-19 cases, the biggest increase of any US state since the start of the pandemic, and a local official expressed concern about ICU capacity at Miami-area hospitals.

While daily reported deaths in Florida declined to 44 from 95 a day earlier, the rise in infections keeps attention focused on the US’s third-most populous state as cases surge across the southern and western US...

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