The Spy obtains information for the above chart between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Statewide data are updated about 10 a.m. each day. Johns Hopkins updates its data throughout the day.
Key points for today
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently launched the new Community Level tool, which replaced community transmission levels (except for healthcare settings). Levels can be low, medium, or high and are based on
- hospital beds being used;
- hospital admissions; and
- total number of new cases in an area.
- Community levels in all counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore are low.
- Kent County’s 7-day average positivity rate is 3.12% and its case rate is 5.88 cases per 100,000 population.
- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is now at 1,003,908 an increase of 398 in the past 24 hours.
- In the past 24 hours,11 people died as a result of COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 13,908.
- The state’s average positivity rate is 1.85%, down .05 percentage points from yesterday.
- The number of patients currently hospitalized is 349, up 4 from yesterday.
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