Key points for today
• Kent County cases increased by 1 to 229, according to the county health department.
• The county’s 7-day average positivity rate is 1.56%.
• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is now at 83,748, an increase of 694 in the last 24 hours.
• Of the state’s 3,309 deaths, 5 were in the last 24 hours.
The Spy obtains information for this chart between 12 and 2 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 data throughout the day.
* Maryland and Cecil County report the total released from isolation.
** For Kent County deaths, The Spy reports its own tally based on the number of state-reported deaths within Kent County facilities and the number of non-facility deaths. For Queen Anne’s County deaths, The Spy reports the total deaths listed on the county’s website. There are discrepancies among state and county statistics concerning total deaths and facility deaths.
Key metrics
• The number of COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Maryland decreased by 5 in the last 24 hours.
• There currently are 540 people hospitalized — 387 in acute care and 153 in intensive care.
• Of the 22,045 test results received on July 25, 3.77% were positive; the 7-day average positivity rate was 4.47%.
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Additional information
• A total of 1,097,361 COVID-19 tests have been conducted in Maryland. The state reports 754,824 total negative test results.
• Of the state’s 83,748 cases, 12,283 patients have ever been hospitalized for treatment; 5,434 have been released from isolation.
The graph below shows the total cases, total ever hospitalized, and total deaths statewide.
alice Barron says
Why doesn’t KENT record the RECOVERED CASES???