Maryland reported an additional 492 coronavirus cases on Tuesday, raising the state’s case total above 70,000, according to newly released data.
A total of 70,396 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19 and 523,982 residents have tested negative as of Tuesday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland has completed 734,342 COVID-19 tests to date, and the state reported 9,879 of those test results in the last 24 hours.
On average, 4.53 percent of the state’s coronavirus tests over the past seven days came back positive.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for coronavirus, 11,111 people were hospitalized at some point, including 404 who are currently hospitalized.
Coronavirus-related hospitalizations decreased for 32 consecutive days from 1,338 on May 27 to 446 on June 28. Since then, hospitalizations have continued to trend downward despite increasing for a few days last week.
After the month-long decline in hospitalizations, the number of patients rose for three days to reach 461 on July 1. Hospitalizations then decreased for the next five days until reaching 403 on July 6, before increasing by one today.
Of the residents who are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, 259 are in acute care and 145 are in intensive care.
The number of intensive care unit admissions rose by three following several days of fluctuations last week.
Maryland has experienced 3,140 deaths due to COVID-19 since the pandemic began, including 19 Marylanders whose coronavirus-related deaths have been reported since Monday. There are also 126 deaths suspected to be related to the virus.
As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, there have been 19,182 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 15,332 in Montgomery County; 8,381 in Baltimore County; 8,000 in Baltimore City; 5,305 in Anne Arundel County; 2,685 in Howard County; 2,551 in Frederick County; 1,451 in Charles County; 1,198 in Harford County; 1,182 in Carroll County; 1,095 in Wicomico County; 691 in Washington County; 662 in St. Mary’s County; 505 in Cecil County; 422 in Calvert County; 323 in Caroline County; 301 in Worcester County; 256 in Queen Anne’s County; 210 Allegany County; 204 in Kent County; 199 in Dorchester County; 155 in Talbot County; 91 in Somerset County; and 15 in Garrett County, according to the dashboard.
Maryland has confirmed 2,155 cases in people age 9 or younger; 3,737 in people ages 10-19; 10,578 in people ages 20-29; 13,161 in people ages 30-39; 12,406 in people ages 40-49; 10,982 in people ages 50-59; 7,837 in people ages 60-69; 4,952 in people ages 70-79; and 4,588 in people age 80 or older.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, the state has identified 36,503 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 33,893 as male.
Of the state’s confirmed cases, 20,157 have been Black, 18,690 have been Hispanic, 13,954 have been white, 1,346 have been Asian, 3,427 have been another race, and data is not available for the remaining 12,822.
Nationwide, there have been at least 2,939,540 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 130,312 deaths and 924,148 recoveries. More than 36 million people in the U.S. have been tested for COVID-19 as of 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
