COVID-19 In Montgomery: Total Cases Reach 51.5K, Deaths Hit 1,140

BETHESDA, MD — Montgomery County added 460 new COVID-19 cases and three new deaths on Monday, pushing its overall totals to 51,527 infections and 1,140 fatalities.

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 confirmatory lab tests are performed.

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 60,023, according to the latest figures.

Across Maryland, there have been 309,686 coronavirus cases, 6,129 confirmed deaths, and 172 "probable deaths." Of the 1,957 patients being hospitalized for the disease statewide, 447 are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).