After Maryland surpassed 100,000 confirmed coronavirus cases over the weekend, the percentage of Marylanders who are testing positive for coronavirus is continuing to decline, according to data released by the state today.
On average, 3.27 percent of Maryland’s tests over the last seven days have come back positive for COVID-19.
The state’s postive test rate has decreased from 3.62 percent on Aug. 9, 4.36 percent on Aug. 2 and 4.61 percent on July 26.
Meanwhile, the seven-day average rate of positive tests is 4.05 percent for Marylanders younger than 35 and 2.83 percent for Marylanders older than 35.
At least 100,715 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 1,056,897 have tested negative as of Monday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.
Maryland’s coronavirus caseload rose by 503 new cases, an increase of 0.5 percent.
The state has completed 1,645,642 coronavirus tests to date, with 28,860 test results reported in the past 24 hours.
Of the state’s total number of confirmed cases, 13,658 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were hospitalized at some point, including 435 who are currently hospitalized.
Of those currently hospitalized, 329 are in acute care and 106 are in intensive care.
The number of acute care patients fell by 31, while the number of intensive care patients declined by nine, marking a net decrease of 40 fewer Marylanders hospitalized with COVID-19 compared to Sunday.
Maryland reported two more deaths due to COVID-19 since Sunday, bringing the total number of fatal cases to 3,504. There are also 137 deaths suspected to be related to coronavirus.
As of 10 a.m. Monday, there have been 24,654 confirmed cases in Prince George’s County; 19,003 in Montgomery County; 13,941 in Baltimore County; 13,425 in Baltimore City; 7,648 in Anne Arundel County; 4,071 in Howard County; 3,216 in Frederick County; 2,165 in Charles County; 2,150 in Harford County; 1,608 in Carroll County; 1,401 in Wicomico County; 1,125 in Washington County; 1,048 in St. Mary’s County; 737 in Calvert County; 729 in Worcester County; 726 in Cecil County; 482 in Queen Anne’s County; 461 in Caroline County; 420 in Talbot County; 408 in Dorchester County; 341 Allegany County; 244 in Kent County; 151 in Somerset County; and 58 in Garrett County, according to the dashboard.
Of the state’s confirmed cases, 3,552 have been people age 9 or younger; 6,797 have been people ages 10-19; 17,865 have been people ages 20-29; 18,860 have been people ages 30-39; 16,797 have been people ages 40-49; 14,951 have been people ages 50-59; 10,235 have been people ages 60-69; 6,279 have been people ages 70-79; and 5,379 have been people age 80 or older.
Maryland has identified 53,172 of the confirmed COVID-19 patients as female and 47,543 as male.
Of Maryland’s confirmed cases, 32,109 have been Black, 24,733 have been Hispanic, 22,322 have been white, 1,849 have been Asian, 4,396 have been another race, and data is not available for the remaining 15,306.
Nationwide, there have been at least 5,406,625 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, including at least 170,065 deaths and 1,833,067 recoveries. More than 67.2 million people in the U.S. have been tested for COVID-19 as of 10 a.m. Monday, according to a real-time dashboard created by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
