Maryland officials on Wednesday reported 64 more coronavirus-related deaths, the highest daily death total in seven months since the state reported 70 deaths on May 12.
Since the pandemic began in March, 5,103 Marylanders are confirmed to have died from coronavirus, while another 167 residents’ deaths are suspected to be related to the virus.
At least 241,767 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 2,365,844 have tested negative as of Wednesday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
The state’s coronavirus caseload rose by 2,405, an increase of 1%.
Maryland reported 37,014 test results on Wednesday, and the state has completed a total of 5,131,430 coronavirus tests to date.
An average of 7.49% of the state’s coronavirus tests over the last seven days came positive.
The seven-day average rate of positive tests yesterday was 8.19% for Marylanders younger than 35 and 7.09% for Marylanders older than 35.
There are currently 1,762 Marylanders hospitalized due to COVID-19, including 1,363 who are in acute care and 399 who are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients fell by 25 while the number of intensive care patients declined by 12, marking a net decrease of 37 fewer people hospitalized with coronavirus compared to Tuesday.
Maryland has hospitalized a total of 23,908 people with COVID-19 to date.
As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, 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 the Marylanders who have tested positive for COVID-19, 10,624 are people age 9 or younger; 21,751 are people ages 10-19; 45,341 are people ages 20-29; 42,859 are people ages 30-39; 37,627 are people ages 40-49; 35,968 are people ages 50-59; 23,949 are people ages 60-69; 13,849 are people ages 70-79; and 9,799 are people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 127,189 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 114,578 as male.
Of the state’s confirmed cases, 71,159 are Black, 43,618 are Hispanic, 75,985 are white, 4,908 are Asian, 11,080 are another race, and data is not available for the remaining 35,017.
Nationwide, there have been at least 16,725,319 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 303,948 deaths. The U.S. has conducted more than 220.8 million coronavirus tests to date as of 10 a.m. Wednesday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
