Montgomery County has joined a growing number of Maryland jurisdictions that have tested more than 10 percent of their residents for COVID-19, according to data that the state released today.
State health officials three weeks ago instructed local leaders to increase their jurisdictions’ coronavirus testing efforts to reach 10 percent of their residents.
Half of Maryland’s jurisdictions have now crossed that threshold: Somerset, Kent, Washington, Dorchester, Talbot, Wicomico, Allegany, Frederick, Prince George’s, Baltimore and Montgomery counties and Baltimore City.
Anne Arundel County, which has tested 8.3 percent of its residents, is the only large jurisdiction in Maryland that still needs to meet the 10 percent goal.
There have been 71,447 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Maryland, while 541,134 of the state’s residents have tested negative as of Thursday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland has completed 761,395 coronavirus tests to date, including 15,121 test results that were reported in the past 24 hours.
An average of 4.53 percent of COVID-19 tests reported over the last seven days came back positive.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 11,221 people were hospitalized at some point.
There are 406 residents currently hospitalized with COVID-19, including 267 in acute care and 139 in intensive care.
After coronavirus-related hospitalizations fell to 398 yesterday, its lowest point since March, the number increased by eight hospitalizations today.
The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care also saw a slight increase, with three more Marylanders admitted due to coronavirus.
Maryland has reported 11 more coronavirus-related deaths since Wednesday, raising the total number of fatal cases to 3,160. There are also 128 Marylanders whose deaths are suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Thursday, there have been 19,456 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 15,503 in Montgomery County; 8,497 in Baltimore County; 8,155 in Baltimore City; 5,391 in Anne Arundel County; 2,751 in Howard County; 2,567 in Frederick County; 1,483 in Charles County; 1,225 in Harford County; 1,190 in Carroll County; 1,109 in Wicomico County; 702 in Washington County; 673 in St. Mary’s County; 514 in Cecil County; 435 in Calvert County; 329 in Caroline County; 309 in Worcester County; 268 in Queen Anne’s County; 212 Allegany County; 203 in Kent County; 199 in Dorchester County; 165 in Talbot County; 94 in Somerset County; and 17 in Garrett County, according to the dashboard.
Maryland has confirmed 2,192 cases in people age 9 or younger; 3,827 in people ages 10-19; 10,854 in people ages 20-29; 13,355 in people ages 30-39; 12,556 in people ages 40-49; 11,136 in people ages 50-59; 7,920 in people ages 60-69; 4,980 in people ages 70-79; and 4,617 in people age 80 or older.
The state has identified 37,077 of its confirmed coronavirus patients as female and 34,370 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 20,515 have been Black, 19,172 have been Hispanic, 14,286 have been white, 1,399 have been Asian, 3,419 have been another race, and data is not available for the remaining 12,656.
Nationwide, there have been at least 3,055,491 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 132,309 deaths and 953,420 recoveries. More than 37.4 million people in the U.S. have been tested for COVID-19 as of 10 a.m. Thursday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
