Maryland health officials have reported fewer than 1,000 new confirmed COVID-19 cases for seven consecutive days.
The state’s coronavirus caseload on Wednesday grew by 679 new cases, an increase of about 0.15%.
At least 450,689 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 3,362,172 have tested negative as of Wednesday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland has completed 9,804,831 coronavirus tests to date, with 24,927 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
On average, 3.71% of the state’s COVID-19 tests over the last seven days came back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 4.12% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 3.37% for Marylanders older than 35.
Maryland’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations are continuing to decline, with 10 fewer residents hospitalized with COVID-19 compared to Tuesday.
Of the 934 Marylanders currently hospitalized with coronavirus, 688 are in acute care and 246 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients declined by 10 while the number of intensive care patients remained the same as Tuesday.
Maryland has recorded a total of 41,849 COVID-19 hospitalizations to date.
A total of 8,622 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with 10 additional deaths reported since Tuesday. There are also 191 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
Of the two-dose vaccines, Maryland has administered a total of 2,810,050 first doses and 1,992,315 second doses.
In the past 24 hours, providers have administered 19,386 first doses and 36,075 second doses.
Maryland providers have also administered single-dose vaccines to a total of 193,834 people, including 1,837 doses that were reported in the past 24 hours.
A total of 2,186,149 Marylanders have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, state data showed on Wednesday.
Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday ordered nursing homes to report COVID-19 vaccinations among staff members and residents on a weekly basis.
A new dashboard managed by the Department of Aging showed that statewide 76.5% of nursing home residents and 63.1% of nursing home staff are fully vaccinated against coronavirus as of Monday.
In Baltimore City, 67.4% of nursing home residents and 62.5% of nursing home staff were fully vaccinated as of Monday.
As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, there have been 83,504 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 70,075 in Montgomery County; 64,086 in Baltimore County; 51,488 in Baltimore City; 42,834 in Anne Arundel County; 19,504 in Frederick County; 18,961 in Howard County; 16,185 in Harford County; 14,268 in Washington County; 10,609 in Charles County; 9,199 in Carroll County; 7,481 in Wicomico County; 6,868 in Allegany County; 6,116 in Cecil County; 5,878 in St. Mary’s County; 4,169 in Calvert County; 3,584 in Worcester County; 2,940 in Queen Anne’s County; 2,727 in Dorchester County; 2,546 in Somerset County; 2,269 in Caroline County; 2,093 in Talbot County; 1,987 in Garrett County; and 1,318 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 24,958 are people age 9 or younger; 46,045 are people ages 10-19; 82,732 are people ages 20-29; 77,168 are people ages 30-39; 67,314 are people ages 40-49; 67,297 are people ages 50-59; 44,831 are people ages 60-69; 24,650 are people ages 70-79; and 15,694 are people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 235,593 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 215,096 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 138,375 are Black, 10,908 are Asian, 159,036 are white, 68,416 are Hispanic, 21,043 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 52,911.
Nationwide, there have been at least 32,513,803 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 578,504 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 438.3 million coronavirus tests to date as of 10 a.m. Wednesday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
