Maryland surpassed 110,000 total coronavirus cases on Thursday, a day before the state is set to enter phase three of its COVID-19 reopening plan.
Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday announced that Maryland would move into the third and final stage of his administration’s reopening plan on Friday.
County executives for Baltimore, Howard and Harford counties said they move their jurisdictions into stage three, The Baltimore Sun reported.
Meanwhile, Baltimore City plans to take a slower approach to reopening. The city’s theaters and other entertainment venues will remain closed, but restaurants will be able to increase their capacity for indoor dining from 25 percent to 50 percent.
Anne Arundel and Carroll counties are expected to announce their jurisdictions’ decisions today.
At least 110,012 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 1,247,593 have tested negative as of Thursday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland’s coronavirus caseload rose by 693, an increase of 0.6 percent.
A total of 3,634 Marylanders have died from COVID-19, with 11 additional deaths reported since Wednesday. There are also 144 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
There are currently 382 Marylanders hospitalized due to coronavirus, including 270 in acute care and 112 in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients climbed by 13 while the number of intensive care patients declined by one, marking a net increase of 12 more people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Wednesday.
Maryland has hospitalized a total of 14,427 people with COVID-19 to date.
The state has completed 1,989,891 coronavirus tests to date, with 24,960 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Over the last seven days, an average of 3.41 percent of the state’s COVID-19 tests have come back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests is 4.45 percent for Marylanders younger than 35 and 2.75 percent for Marylanders older than 35.
As of 10 a.m. Thursday, there have been 26,565 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 20,281 in Montgomery County; 15,825 in Baltimore County; 14,626 in Baltimore City; 8,536 in Anne Arundel County; 4,459 in Howard County; 3,532 in Frederick County; 2,552 in Harford County; 2,424 in Charles County; 1,728 in Carroll County; 1,587 in Wicomico County; 1,349 in Washington County; 1,130 in St. Mary’s County; 854 in Worcester County; 809 in Cecil County; 795 in Calvert County; 560 in Queen Anne’s County; 522 in Caroline County; 478 in Talbot County; 468 in Dorchester County; 398 in Allegany County; 270 in Kent County; 201 in Somerset County; and 63 in Garrett County, according to the dashboard.
Maryland has confirmed 4,038 cases in people age 9 or younger; 8,029 in people ages 10-19; 19,998 in people ages 20-29; 20,410 in people ages 30-39; 18,102 in people ages 40-49; 16,239 in people ages 50-59; 10,995 in people ages 60-69; 6,654 in people ages 70-79; and 5,547 in people age 80 or older.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 58,185 patients have been female and 51,827 have been male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 35,440 have been Black, 25,021 have been Hispanic, 25,821 have been white, 2,104 have been Asian, 5,097 have been another race, and data is not available for the remaining 16,529.
Nationwide, there have been at least 6,115,638 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 185,756 deaths and 2,231,757 recoveries. More than 79.6 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.
