County Adds 30 New Cases; Over 60% Received COVID-19 Shot

SILVER SPRING, MD — Montgomery County registered 30 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 70,645 and 1,493, respectively.

The local fatality count does not include the 46 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 84,689, according to the latest figures.

Across Maryland, there have been 457,527 cases, 8,782 confirmed deaths, and 191 "probable deaths." Of the 521 people currently being hospitalized statewide, 142 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 2.07 percent. In Montgomery County, it's 1.26 percent — up from 1.25 percent the day before.

To date, Maryland has administered 5,808,553 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Among those, 3,094,723 were first doses and 2,490,814 were second doses.

In Montgomery County, 635,477 residents (60.5 percent) have received their first dose. A total of 518,039 residents (49.3 percent) have already gotten their second and final shot.