Montgomery Co. Reports 62 New Coronavirus Cases, 3 More Deaths

SILVER SPRING, MD — Montgomery County on Monday recorded 62 new coronavirus infections and three additional fatalities, bringing its total to 14,141 cases and 683 deaths.

Another 40, health officials believe, had COVID-19 but died without ever getting tested. "Probable deaths," as they're called, aren't included in the official fatality count until they are confirmed by a laboratory test.

Monday's addition comes less than 72 hours after the county entered phase two of its reopening plan. That involved lifting more coronavirus restrictions on non-essential businesses and gatherings.

To date, the county has met eight of its 10 reopening benchmarks.

To meet them, health officials say the county must see 14 days of fewer cases, deaths, hospitalizations, patients, on a three-day rolling average. The data calculates a three-day rolling average because of potential outliers, like the occasional 24-hour spikes in the aforementioned metrics.

So far, the region has reached its 14-day benchmarks for:

• The number of new coronavirus-related cases
• The number of coronavirus-related hospitalizations
• The number of coronavirus-related emergency room patients
• The number of coronavirus-related ICU hospitalizations
• The rate at which acute beds are being used (goal is less than 70 percent)
• The rate at which ICU beds are being used (goal is less than 80 percent)
• The rate at which ventilators are being used (goal is less than 70 percent)
• The test positivity rate

It has not reached its benchmarks for:

• The number of new coronavirus-related deaths
  • Met 13 out of 14 days
• Tests administered in the last 30 days
  • 4 percent (goal is 5 percent)

Montgomery County — which is home to roughly 1.1 million residents — has 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 17,935, according to the latest figures.

As of Monday, COVID-19 has infected 64,603 people and killed 2,945 statewide. Another 129 have been classified as "probable deaths."

The number of coronavirus hospitalizations is now 602. Of that, 232 are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Here's how Montgomery County stacks up against other jurisdictions in Maryland:

Confirmed Infections, Deaths By County

A case count by jurisdiction can be found below. Montgomery County is outlined in bright blue.

Note: For the table below, a number with an asterisk represents a "probable death."

Percent of Population Tested

Cases By ZIP Code

Note: This is not the full list. More case totals by ZIP code can be found here.

• 20906 (Silver Spring) — 1,579 cases
• 20783 (Hyattsville) — 2,180 cases
• 20706 (Lanham) — 1,217 cases
• 20904 (Silver Spring) — 1,034 cases
• 21224 (Baltimore) — 1,152 cases
• 21703 (Frederick) — 648 cases
• 20886 (Montgomery Village) — 609 cases
• 20782 (Hyattsville) — 1,045 cases
• 20737 (Riverdale) — 927 cases
• 20902 (Silver Spring) — 1,262 cases
  
• 20874 (Germantown) — 669 cases
• 21234 (Parkville) — 564 cases
• 21061 (Glen Burnie) — 546 cases
• 20850 (Rockville) — 535 cases
  
• 20877 (Gaithersburg) — 918 cases
• 21702 (Frederick) — 699 cases
• 21044 (Columbia) — 308 cases