Montgomery Has Two Straight Weeks With 100-Plus Daily New Cases

SILVER SPRING, MD — Montgomery County on Wednesday hit two straight weeks with more than 100 daily new COVID-19 cases, according to the Maryland Department of Health.

Wednesday's addition — of 153 infections — brings the county to 26,551 positive cases since the pandemic began in early March.

In the last 24 hours, two more people have died from COVID-19. The county's death toll now stands at 837.

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 840 fatalities and 33,651 infections, according to the latest figures.

Across Maryland, there have been 148,766 cases, 4,025 confirmed deaths, and 147 "probable deaths." Of the 595 people that are currently hospitalized, 154 are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).