Maryland’s average rate of coronavirus tests coming back positive over the last seven days is 6.88%, and that average has remained above 5% for 15 straight days, state data show.
In May, the World Health Organization recommended that states should maintain a positive test rate of 5% or less for 14 days before they begin reopening.
Maryland’s seven-day average positivity rate has been above 5% since reaching 5.05% on Nov. 8.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 7.11% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 6.74% for Marylanders older than 35.
At least 183,797 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 2,054,695 have tested negative as of Monday 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 1,658, an increase of 0.91%.
Maryland reported a daily coronavirus case count of below 2,000 confirmed cases for the first time in one week, but daily cases have remained at or above 1,000 cases for 20 days, state data show.
After Maryland recorded 1,726 new cases on Nov. 16, the state then reported more than 2,000 cases per day from Nov. 17 to 22.
The state has reported at least 1,000 cases per day since recording exactly 1,000 newly confirmed cases on Nov. 4.
Gov. Larry Hogan will hold a press conference at 4 p.m. Monday to provide an update about the state’s coronavirus surge.
Last week, Maryland saw its largest number of new cases reported in a single day on Thursday with 2,910 new confirmed cases, followed by the second largest amount on Friday with 2,353 cases.
The state has completed 4,171,674 coronavirus tests to date, with 30,947 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
There are currently 1,276 Marylanders hospitalized with COVID-19, including 987 in acute care and 289 in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients rose by 18 while the number of intensive care patients climbed by 21, marking a net increase of 39 more people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Sunday.
Maryland has hospitalized a total of 19,769 people with COVID-19 to date.
Maryland reported an additional 14 deaths since Sunday, raising the state’s total number of coronavirus-related deaths to 4,293. There are also 155 people whose deaths are suspected to be related to the virus.
As of 10 a.m. Monday, there have been 38,985 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 31,389 in Montgomery County; 27,223 in Baltimore County; 22,932 in Baltimore City; 15,587 in Anne Arundel County; 7,488 in Howard County; 6,198 in Frederick County; 5,537 in Harford County; 4,065 in Charles County; 3,651 in Washington County; 3,172 in Wicomico County; 3,052 in Carroll County; 2,493 in Allegany County; 1,949 in St. Mary’s County; 1,890 in Cecil County; 1,480 in Calvert County; 1,415 in Worcester County; 1,027 in Queen Anne’s County; 968 in Dorchester County; 878 in Caroline County; 761 in Talbot County; 743 in Somerset County; 504 in Garrett County; and 410 in Kent County, according to the dashboard.
Of the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 7,513 are people age 9 or younger; 16,354 are people ages 10-19; 35,062 are people ages 20-29; 32,956 are people ages 30-39; 28,952 are people ages 40-49; 27,079 are people ages 50-59; 17,948 are people ages 60-69; 10,330 are people ages 70-79; and 7,603 are people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 96,700 of the confirmed coronavirus patients as female and 87,097 as male.
Of the state’s confirmed cases, 55,302 are Black, 35,967 are Hispanic, 53,914 are white, 3,587 are Asian, 8,434 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 26,593.
Nationwide, there have been at least 12,254,135 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 256,803 deaths and 4,526,513 recoveries. The U.S. has conducted more than 179.3 million coronavirus tests to date as of 10 a.m. Monday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
