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
• Community transmission of COVID-19 remains high. Wear a mask indoors in public spaces.
• Talbot County’s 7-day average positivity rate is 28.44% and its case rate is 145.60 cases per 100,000 population.
• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is now at 850,316, an increase of 9,693 in the past 24 hours.
• In the past 24 hours, 70 people died as a result of COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 12,086.
• The state’s average positivity rate is 27.62%, down 0.36 percentage points from yesterday.
• The number of patients currently hospitalized is 3,452, up 88 from yesterday.
Alan Boisvert says
And still no state wide mask mandate from Hogan….disgusting.
Barbara Perry says
Absolutely agree with you! Without a statewide indoor mask mandate, people ignore stores that are telling people to wear masks like Harris Teeter has done in Easton.