The number of coronavirus-related hospitalizations and the number of patients in intensive care units on Friday continued to decline, state data show. Those figures have dropped for 16 and 10 consecutive days, respectively.
At least 60,613 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 339,482 have tested negative as of Friday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Of the state’s total number of confirmed cases, 9,923 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were hospitalized at some point, including 836 who are currently hospitalized.
Coronavirus-related hospitalizations in Maryland have decreased for 16 consecutive days since reaching 1,228 on May 27, and have trended downward for more than a month. The metric has reached its lowest point since the state recorded 801 hospitalizations due to COVID-19 on April 7.
Of those currently hospitalized, 505 are in acute care and 331 are in intensive care.
The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units in Maryland has decreased for 10 consecutive days since reaching 481 on June 2, and has followed a downward trend for a little less than a month. The metric has reached its lowest point since the state recorded 309 COVID-19 intensive care patients on April 8.
Maryland has conducted at least 473,271 coronavirus tests to date, with 9,764 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Over the past seven days, an average of 6.93 percent of Maryland’s coronavirus tests have come back positive, down 0.32 percent from Thursday. Public health experts recommend a positive test rate of 10 percent or lower.
As of Friday, Prince George’s County is the only jurisdiction in Maryland that does not have an average rate of positive tests below that 10 percent guideline.
A total of 2,773 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with 23 additional deaths since Thursday. There are also 127 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
Effective at 5 p.m. today, Maryland jurisdictions will be permitted to lift more coronavirus-related restrictions under phase two of the state’s COVID-19 recovery plan, including allowing indoor dining to reopen at 50 percent capacity.
As in previous instances when the state has lifted coronavirus-related restrictions, Gov. Larry Hogan has left it up to local leaders to determine whether their jurisdiction will allow businesses and activities to reopen in their areas.
As of 10 a.m. Friday, there have been 17,042 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 13,348 in Montgomery County; 7,051 in Baltimore County; 6,559 in Baltimore City; 4,453 in Anne Arundel County; 2,332 in Howard County; 2,225 in Frederick County; 1,248 in Charles County; 1,004 in Wicomico County; 991 in Harford County; 977 in Carroll County; 575 in St. Mary’s County; 568 in Washington County; 435 in Cecil County; 370 in Calvert County; 279 in Caroline County; 246 in Worcester County; 189 in Kent County; 187 in Allegany County; 179 in Queen Anne’s County; 160 in Dorchester County; 107 in Talbot County; 78 in Somerset County; and 10 in Garrett County, according to the dashboard.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 1,626 have been people age 9 or younger; 2,879 have been people ages 10-19; 8,604 have been people ages 20-29; 11,321 have been people ages 30-39; 10,903 have been people ages 40-49; 9,670 have been people ages 50-59; 6,973 have been people ages 60-69; 4,450 have been people ages 70-79; and 4,187 have been people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 31,531 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 29,082 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 17,449 have been black, 16,404 have been Hispanic, 11,848 have been white, 1,182 have been Asian, 3,105 have been another race, and data is not available for the remaining 10,625.
Nationwide, there have been at least 2,023,690 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 113,822 deaths and 540,292 recoveries. More than 21.9 million people in the U.S. have been tested for COVID-19 as of 10 a.m. Friday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
