Key points for today
• Kent County has 138 confirmed cases of COVID-19, an increase of seven in the last 24 hours.
• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is 37,968, an increase of 982 in the last 24 hours.
• Of the state’s 1,842 deaths, 50 were in the last 24 hours; another 115 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 1,500 people hospitalized — 902 in acute care and 598 in intensive care. The number of patients currently hospitalized increased by 4 in the last 24 hours.
• Of the state’s 37,968 cases, 6,755 patients have ever been hospitalized for treatment.
• Maryland says 2,806 patients have been released from isolation, including 121 in the last 24 hours.
• The state reports 152,207 negative test results, including 6,367 in the last 24 hours.
The graphs below are from coronavirus.maryland.gov and show the trends for cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.
Anne Singer says
My mother-in-law was not in a nursing facility and died on April 25. All deaths in Kent County were definitely not among residents of facilities.