County Tops 500 New COVID-19 Cases For The 7th Time Since March

BETHESDA, MD — For the seventh time since the beginning of the pandemic, Montgomery County has recorded more than 500 daily new COVID-19 cases.

Data from the Maryland Department of Health shows the county registered 514 new infections on Monday, which pushes the local total to 48,089 cases. Four of the 500-plus daily increases happened in December and two took place in January. The first occurrence was reported in mid-May.

In the past 24 hours, two more people have died from COVID-19. The county's death toll now stands at 1,097.

Forty-three others, health officials say, may have had the virus but died before ever getting tested. For now, they are considered "probable deaths." They won't be added to the official fatality count until they are confirmed by a lab test.

Montgomery County — which is home to roughly 1 million residents — continues to have the highest number of deaths in the state. It also has the second-highest number of confirmed cases, after Prince George's County, which has 56,391, according to the latest figures.

Across Maryland, there have been 287,802 coronavirus cases, 5,859 confirmed deaths, and 168 "probable deaths." Of the 1,751 patients being hospitalized for the disease statewide, 418 are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).