More than 5,000 Marylanders have died from coronavirus-related complications since the beginning of the pandemic, with the state reporting 61 more deaths on Tuesday.
With that, Maryland saw the largest number of deaths reported in one day since the state reported 70 deaths on May 12.
Maryland has confirmed a total of 5,039 COVID-19 deaths to date, as well as 167 deaths that are suspected to be related to coronavirus.
Coronavirus-hospitalizations in Maryland continue to climb, reaching a pandemic high for the fifth time in the past week.
Of 1,799 Marylanders currently hospitalized with coronavirus, 1,388 are in acute care and 411 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients climbed by 50 while the number of intensive care patients rose by seven, marking a net increase of 57 more people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Monday.
Maryland has hospitalized a total of 23,711 people with coronavirus since the pandemic began.
At least 239,362 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 2,354,515 have tested negative as of Tuesday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
The state’s total number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose by 2,401, an increase of 1.01%.
Maryland has completed 5,094,572 coronavirus tests to date, with 33,186 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Over the last seven days, an average of 7.53% of the state’s COVID-19 tests have come back positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 8.17% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 7.17% for Marylanders older than 35.
As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, there have been 48,232 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 40,062 in Montgomery County; 34,407 in Baltimore County; 28,407 in Baltimore City; 20,548 in Anne Arundel County; 9,783 in Howard County; 8,966 in Frederick County; 7,357 in Harford County; 6,088 in Washington County; 5,234 in Charles County; 4,737 in Allegany County; 4,260 in Carroll County; 3,990 in Wicomico County; 2,923 in Cecil County; 2,765 in St. Mary’s County; 1,916 in Calvert County; 1,748 in Worcester County; 1,488 in Somerset County; 1,368 in Queen Anne’s County; 1,182 in Caroline County; 1,177 in Dorchester County; 1,169 in Garrett County; 972 in Talbot County; and 583 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 10,498 are people age 9 or younger; 21,536 are people ages 10-19; 44,931 are people ages 20-29; 42,454 are people ages 30-39; 37,257 are people ages 40-49; 35,563 are people ages 50-59; 23,692 are people ages 60-69; 13,703 are people ages 70-79; and 9,728 are people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 125,976 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 113,386 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 70,501 are Black, 43,336 are Hispanic, 75,106 are white, 4,843 are Asian, 10,949 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 34,627.
Nationwide, there have been at least 16,522,123 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 300,723 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 219.2 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.
