Key points for today
• Kent County has 131 confirmed cases of COVID-19, an increase of six in the last 24 hours.
• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is 36,986, an increase of 1,083 in the last 24 hours.
• Of the state’s 1,792 deaths, 44 were in the last 24 hours; another 119 deaths in Maryland are likely due to the novel coronavirus.
The chart below is scrollable and sortable.
Sources: State and local health departments, Johns Hopkins University.
The Spy updates this chart between 2 and 3 p.m. Statewide data is updated about 10 a.m. each day; counties may update data throughout the day until 5 p.m. Hopkins updates its map data throughout the day.
Nursing home data is updated weekly on Wednesdays.
If county and state data conflict, county data is reported.
* Maryland and Cecil County report the total released from isolation.
** See related story here.
Additional information
• There currently are 1,496 people hospitalized — 898 in acute care and 598 in intensive care. The number of patients currently hospitalized dropped by 42 in the last 24 hours.
• Of the state’s 36,986 cases, 6,679 patients have ever been hospitalized for treatment.
• Maryland says 2,685 patients have been released from isolation, including 116 in the last 24 hours.
• The state reports 145,840 negative test results, including 3,289 in the last 24 hours.
The graphs below are from coronavirus.maryland.gov and show the trends for cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.
Beryl Smith says
All along the Eastern Shore more cases are reported each day, yet all the conversation seems to be that things have flattened out, it is starting to end, and we can begin opening up. Am I missing something here?