Prince George’s and Baltimore counties have now tested at least 10 percent of their residents for coronavirus, joining nine other Maryland jurisdictions that have reached that benchmark.
On June 18, state health officials directed local leaders to increase testing efforts in their jurisdictions to test 10 percent of their populations.
A total of 11 jurisdictions have met that goal so far: Somerset, Kent, Washington, Dorchester, Talbot, Wicomico, Allegany, Frederick, Prince George’s and Baltimore counties and Baltimore City.
Anne Arundel and Montgomery counties are the only large jurisdictions that have not yet met the 10 percent goal.
Montgomery County has tested 9.6 percent of its residents, while Anne Arundel County has tested 7.9 percent.
There have been 69,904 confirmed coronavirus cases in Maryland, while 517,457 of the state’s residents have tested negative for COVID-19 as of Monday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland has reported 10,937 coronavirus test results in the past 24 hours and has conducted a total of 724,463 tests since the pandemic began.
An average of 4.51 percent of COVID-19 tests reported over the last seven days have come back positive.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 11,096 people were hospitalized at some point, including 403 who are currently hospitalized.
Maryland’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations have generally decreased for the past two months, save for a three-day uptick last week.
Of the Marylanders who are currently hospitalized for COVID-19, 261 are in acute care and 142 are in intensive care.
The state’s number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units has trended downward for the past seven weeks.
A total of 3,121 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with three additional deaths reported since Sunday. There are also 125 Marylanders whose deaths are suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Monday, there have been 19,040 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 15,163 in Montgomery County; 8,335 in Baltimore County; 7,960 in Baltimore City; 5,290 in Anne Arundel County; 2,666 in Howard County; 2,554 in Frederick County; 1,441 in Charles County; 1,189 in Harford County; 1,164 in Carroll County; 1,091 in Wicomico County; 696 in Washington County; 659 in St. Mary’s County; 498 in Cecil County; 422 in Calvert County; 322 in Caroline County; 297 in Worcester County; 248 in Queen Anne’s County; 210 Allegany County; 203 in Kent County; 201 in Dorchester County; 152 in Talbot County; 88 in Somerset County; and 15 in Garrett County, according to the dashboard.
Maryland has confirmed 2,141 cases in people age 9 or younger; 3,700 in people ages 10-19; 10,487 in people ages 20-29; 13,069 in people ages 30-39; 12,332 in people ages 40-49; 10,926 in people ages 50-59; 7,786 in people ages 60-69; 4,913 in people ages 70-79; and 4,550 in people age 80 or older.
The state has identified 36,227 of its confirmed coronavirus patients as female and 33,677 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 20,043 have been Black, 18,609 have been Hispanic, 13,850 have been white, 1,337 have been Asian, 3,407 have been another race, and data is not available for the remaining 12,658.
Nationwide, there have been at least 2,888,729 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 129,948 deaths and 906,763 recoveries. More than 35.5 million people in the U.S. have been tested for COVID-19 as of 10 a.m. Monday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
