Key points for today
• Kent County has 137 confirmed cases of COVID-19, a decrease of one in the last 24 hours.
• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is 38,804, an increase of 836 in the last 24 hours.
• Of the state’s 1,876 deaths, 34 were in the last 24 hours; another 116 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 1,460 people hospitalized — 898 in acute care and 562 in intensive care. The number of patients currently hospitalized dropped by 40 in the last 24 hours.
• Of the state’s 38,804 cases, 6,993 patients have ever been hospitalized for treatment.
• Maryland says 2,816 patients have been released from isolation, including 10 in the last 24 hours.
• The state reports 156,122 negative test results, including 3,915 in the last 24 hours.
The graphs below are from coronavirus.maryland.gov and show the trends for cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.
Chris Gordon says
Could someone from the health department discuss why Kent County is so much worse than the rest of the state or the US? Deaths per capita are 3 times the state average or the US average.
Marcia yeager says
Thanks,we all need to know.