Health & Fitness
Montgomery County Surpasses 55K COVID-19 Cases, 1.2K Deaths
Since its outbreak emerged in March, Montgomery County has reported 55,203 COVID-19 infections and 1,201 deaths.
BETHESDA, MD — Montgomery County's COVID-19 caseload surpassed 55,000 on Wednesday, according to the Maryland Department of Health.
Overnight, health officials reported 368 new coronavirus cases, bringing the countywide total during the pandemic to 55,203 infections.
Five more people have died from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. That pushes the local death toll to 1,201.
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Forty-four 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 63,994, according to the latest figures.
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Across Maryland, there have been 332,353 coronavirus cases, 6,514 confirmed deaths, and 175 "probable deaths." Of the 1,858 patients being hospitalized for the disease statewide, 420 are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
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