After Maryland’s seven-day average positive coronavirus test rate increased for 10 consecutive days, it decreased slightly on Tuesday, state data show.
Over the last seven days, an average of 2.95 percent of the state’s COVID-19 tests have come back positive, down 0.07 percentage points from 3.02 percent on Monday.
The average positivity rate increased for 10 days since reaching 2.51 percent on Sept. 4.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 3.66 percent for Marylanders younger than 35 and 2.56 percent for Marylanders older than 35.
At least 128,204 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 1,547,023 have tested negative as of Tuesday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland’s total number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose by 413, an increase of 0.3 percent.
The state has completed 2,752 coronavirus tests to date, with 17,746 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
The number of Marylanders hospitalized due to coronavirus increased for a second day.
Of the state’s 360 residents who are hospitalized with the virus, 272 are in acute care and 88 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients climbed by 19 while the number of intensive care patients rose by three, marking a net increase of 22 more people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Monday.
Since the pandemic began in March, Maryland has hospitalized a total of 15,791 people with COVID-19.
The state reported six more deaths tied to COVID-19, bringing the total number of fatal cases to 3,823. There are also 144 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, there have been 30,153 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 23,135 in Montgomery County; 18,455 in Baltimore County; 16,056 in Baltimore City; 10,473 in Anne Arundel County; 5,276 in Howard County; 4,225 in Frederick County; 3,167 in Harford County; 2,869 in Charles County; 2,117 in Wicomico County; 2,022 in Carroll County; 1,897 in Washington County; 1,357 in St. Mary’s County; 1,127 in Cecil County; 1,103 in Worcester County; 1,019 in Calvert County; 684 in Queen Anne’s County; 666 in Caroline County; 616 in Dorchester County; 579 in Talbot County; 498 in Allegany County; 323 in Somerset; 311 in Kent County; and 76 in Garrett County, according to the dashboard.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 4,825 are people age 9 or younger; 11,030 are people ages 10-19; 24,274 are people ages 20-29; 23,085 are people ages 30-39; 20,405 are people ages 40-49; 18,677 are people ages 50-59; 12,509 are people ages 60-69; 7,443 are people ages 70-79; and 5,956 are people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 67,612 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 60,592 as male.
Of the state’s confirmed cases, 40,344 are Black, 27,473 are Hispanic, 32,625 are white, 2,423 are Asian, 5,917 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 19,422.
Nationwide, there have been at least 7,459,146 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 210,195 deaths and 2,935,142 recoveries. More than 108.8 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.
