Montgomery County Reports 20 New COVID-19 Cases, 1 More Death

ROCKVILLE, MD — Montgomery County registered 20 new COVID-19 cases Friday, as well as one more death associated with the virus.

The latest additions push the total number of confirmed cases and deaths in the county to 70,789 and 1,552, respectively.

The local fatality count does not include the 50 others whose deaths were linked to the virus but never confirmed by a lab test. For now, they are considered "probable deaths."

Montgomery County — which is home to roughly 1 million people — 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 84,956, according to the latest figures.

Across Maryland, there have been 459,343 cases, 9,380 confirmed deaths, and 212 "probable deaths." Of the 397 people currently being hospitalized statewide, 101 are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

The positivity rate measures the percentage of COVID-19 tests that come back positive in a one-week span. According to data released Friday, Maryland's test positivity rate is 1.73 percent. In Montgomery County, it's 0.77 percent — down from 0.82 percent the day before.

To date, Maryland has administered 6,041,055 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Among those, 3,186,967 were first doses and 2,622,493 were second doses.

In Montgomery County, 649,746 residents (61.8 percent) have received their first dose. A total of 541,688 residents (51.6 percent) have already gotten their second and final shot.