Maryland has surpassed 200,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and recorded its third-highest daily total of new cases on Tuesday, state data show.
At least 201,135 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 2,156,576 have tested negative as of Tuesday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
The state’s coronavirus caseload rose by 2,765, an increase of 1.39%.
That is the third-highest amount of new cases that the state has reported in one day since the beginning of the pandemic.
Maryland reported its highest daily number of new cases on Nov. 19 with 2,910 confirmed cases, and its second-highest daily total on Nov. 21 with 2,885 cases.
The state has completed 4,460,445 coronavirus tests to date, with 30,696 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Over the last seven days, an average of 7.33% of the state’s COVID-19 tests have come back positive.
Maryland’s average rate of positive tests has remained above 5% for 23 consecutive days, since passing from 4.62% on Nov. 7 to 5.05% on Nov. 8.
The World Health Organization in May recommended that the positive test rate should be 5 percent or lower for 14 days in order for states to begin reopening.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 7.75% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 7.08% for Marylanders older than 35.
Of the state’s total number of confirmed cases, 21,206 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were hospitalized at some point, including 1,583 who are currently hospitalized.
Of those currently hospitalized, 1,233 are in acute care and 350 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients climbed by 50 while the number of intensive care patients rose by six, marking a net increase of 56 more people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Monday.
Maryland has reported 30 additional coronavirus-related deaths since Monday, raising the state’s total number of COVID-19 fatalities to 4,516. There are also 157 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, there have been 41,297 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 33,400 in Montgomery County; 29,315 in Baltimore County; 24,521 in Baltimore City; 16,742 in Anne Arundel County; 8,155 in Howard County; 6,871 in Frederick County; 6,099 in Harford County; 4,391 in Charles County; 4,281 in Washington County; 3,440 in Wicomico County; 3,327 in Carroll County; 3,168 in Allegany County; 2,153 in St. Mary’s County; 2,109 in Cecil County; 1,598 in Calvert County; 1,483 in Worcester County; 1,097 in Queen Anne’s County; 1,011 in Dorchester County; 972 in Caroline County; 918 in Somerset County; 819 in Talbot County; 755 in Garrett County; and 448 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 8,405 are people age 9 or younger; 17,887 are people ages 10-19; 38,256 are people ages 20-29; 35,921 are people ages 30-39; 31,581 are people ages 40-49; 29,727 are people ages 50-59; 19,665 are people ages 60-69; 11,374 are people ages 70-79; and 8,319 are people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 105,824 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 95,311 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 60,159 are Black, 38,106 are Hispanic, 60,858 are white, 3,989 are Asian, 9,151 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 28,872.
Nationwide, there have been at least 13,547,090 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 268,129 deaths and 8,889,585 recoveries. The U.S. has conducted more than 192.7 million coronavirus tests to date as of 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
