The seven-day average positive test rate in Maryland has dipped below 5% for the first time since the average reached 4.63% on Nov. 7.
As of Friday morning, the average now sits at 4.87%. The average has declined for three consecutive days and has been trending downward since early January.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 4.85% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 4.91% for Marylanders older than 35.
At least 368,977 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 2,913,743 have tested negative as of Friday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland’s coronavirus caseload rose by 1,112, an increase of 0.3%.
The state has completed 7,388,614 coronavirus tests to date, with 44,605 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Maryland coronavirus hospitalizations is continuing to decline, with 47 fewer patients hospitalized due to COVID-19 compared to Thursday.
The number of acute care patients fell by 49 while the number of intensive care patients rose by two.
Of the 1,225 Marylanders currently hospitalized with coronavirus, 899 are in acute care and 326 are in intensive care.
Maryland has hospitalized a total of 33,629 COVID-19 patients to date.
State officials on Friday reported 36 more coronavirus-related deaths, raising the state’s COVID-19 fatality total to 7,324. There are also 179 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
Maryland providers have distributed the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine to a total of 605,410 Marylanders, including 18,230 who received it in the past 24 hours.
Of the Maryland recipients of the first vaccine dose, 213,068 individuals have received the second vaccine dose, including 15,078 people in the past 24 hours.
As of 10 a.m. Friday, there have been 70,646 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 61,330 in Montgomery County; 49,111 in Baltimore County; 39,253 in Baltimore City; 34,348 in Anne Arundel County; 16,294 in Frederick County; 15,179 in Howard County; 11,962 in Harford County; 11,891 in Washington County; 8,496 in Charles County; 7,294 in Carroll County; 6,595 in Wicomico County; 6,348 in Allegany County; 4,918 in Cecil County; 4,876 in St. Mary’s County; 3,559 in Calvert County; 3,181 in Worcester County; 2,478 in Queen Anne’s County; 2,338 in Somerset County; 2,205 in Dorchester County; 1,983 in Caroline County; 1,828 in Garrett County; 1,781 in Talbot County; and 1,083 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 18,183 are people age 9 or younger; 34,899 are people ages 10-19; 66,979 are people ages 20-29; 63,614 are people ages 30-39; 56,151 are people ages 40-49; 55,708 are people ages 50-59; 37,659 are people ages 60-69; 21,492 are people ages 70-79; and 14,292 are people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 193,399 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 175,578 as male.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 105,087 are Black, 59,920 are Hispanic, 126,901 are white, 8,219 are Asian, 17,281 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 51,569.
Nationwide, there have been at least 27,394,595 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 475,471 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 326.5 million coronavirus tests to date as of 10 a.m. Friday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
