More Than 100 New Cases Recorded In MoCo For 13th Straight Day

BETHESDA, MD — For 13 straight days, Montgomery County's daily COVID-19 case count has hit triple digits.

The county recorded 121 new cases on Tuesday, according to the Maryland Department of Health, pushing the local total to 26,398 infections.

In the last 24 hours, one more person has died from COVID-19. The county's death toll now stands at 835.

Forty-one 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 has the second highest number of deaths and cases in the state, after Prince George's County, which has 839 fatalities and 33,488 infections, according to the latest figures.

Across Maryland, there have been 147,766 cases, 4,015 confirmed deaths, and 147 "probable deaths." Of the 562 people that are currently hospitalized, 143 are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).