Maryland confirmed an additional 3,792 coronavirus cases on Friday, by far the largest number of new cases reported in a single day since the pandemic began in March.
Friday’s newly reported cases crushed the state’s previous record high of 2,910 cases, reported just two weeks before on Nov. 19.
Maryland completed 55,912 more coronavirus tests, the largest daily number of test results reported to date.
The state’s average percentage of tests that have come back positive over the last seven days reached 8% on Friday. That average rate has remained below the 8% mark since it fell from 8.43% on June 4 to 7.98% on June 5.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 8.55% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 7.69% for Marylanders older than 35.
At least 209,191 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 2,194,096 have tested negative as of Friday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
The state’s coronavirus caseload increased by about 1.85%.
Of the state’s total number of confirmed cases, 21,756 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were hospitalized at some point, including 1,594 who are currently hospitalized.
Of those currently hospitalized, 1,227 are in acute care and 367 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients rose by 18 while the number of intensive care patients rose by three, marking a net increase of 21 more people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Thursday.
A total of 4,630 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with 24 additional deaths reported since Thursday. There are also 160 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Friday, there have been 43,000 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 35,056 in Montgomery County; 30,671 in Baltimore County; 25,686 in Baltimore City; 17,627 in Anne Arundel County; 8,561 in Howard County; 7,425 in Frederick County; 6,405 in Harford County; 4,764 in Washington County; 4,593 in Charles County; 3,900 in Allegany County; 3,570 in Wicomico County; 3,517 in Carroll County; 2,295 in St. Mary’s County; 2,288 in Cecil County; 1,687 in Calvert County; 1,536 in Worcester County; 1,159 in Queen Anne’s County; 1,127 in Somerset County; 1,045 in Dorchester County; 1,030 in Caroline County; 915 in Garrett County; 848 in Talbot County; and 486 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 8,785 are people age 9 or younger; 18,587 are people ages 10-19; 39,694 are people ages 20-29; 37,254 are people ages 30-39; 32,739 are people ages 40-49; 31,000 are people ages 50-59; 20,549 are people ages 60-69; 11,919 are people ages 70-79; and 8,664 are people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 110,080 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 99,111 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 62,197 are Black, 39,082 are Hispanic, 64,055 are white, 4,149 are Asian, 9,484 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 30,224.
Nationwide, there have been at least 14,149,770 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 276,406 deaths and 5,404,018 recoveries. The U.S. has conducted more than 197.4 million coronavirus tests to date as of 10 a.m. Friday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
