Montgomery COVID-19 Positivity Rate Falls Below 5%

Montgomery County COVID-19 Statistics

Friday morning the Maryland Department of Health reported 15,568 cases of COVID-19 in Montgomery County, which is an increase of 65 from the 15,503 cases reported Thursday.

717 county residents have died from COVID-19 since the first case in March. This is an increase of one since Thursday.

More Montgomery County residents have died due to COVID-19 than any other jurisdiction in the state. Prince George’s has lost 680 residents, the second-highest number.

The positivity rate of 4.38% reported Friday marks the first time it has fallen below 5%. Montgomery County currently has the sixth-highest rate in the state, behind Baltimore County (4.67%), Baltimore City (5.37%), Charles (5.42%), Prince George’s (6.85%), and Queen Anne’s (7.67%)

Maryland COVID-19 Statistics

As of Friday morning, there have been 71,910 confirmed cases throughout the state. That is an increase of 463 in the last 24 hours. COVID-19 has claimed the lives of 3,172 Marylanders, 12 since Thursday.

Currently, 385 Marylanders are hospitalized with COVID-19, 21 fewer than Thursday. Of those patients, 122 are in intensive care, which is 17 fewer than Thursday.  Since June 23rd hospitalizations due to COVID-19 throughout the state have remained below 500. Friday marks the second day the number fell below 400.

The health department reported a testing positivity rate of 4.34% Friday. This is a decrease of 0.19% from Thursday’s rate of 4.53%. For the 15th straight day, the rate remained below 5%.

Statewide, a total of 20,695 cases and 1,286 deaths involve the state’s African American community.

Here are the statewide statistics as of Friday, July 10. The first column is for the number of cases. The next column is the number of deaths, which is in parentheses. The second number in that column is the number of probable deaths.

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