County Tops 400 New COVID-19 Cases For The 11th Time This Month

Rockville MD

14 December, 2020

3:14 PM

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ROCKVILLE, MD — For the 11th time this month, Montgomery County's COVID-19 case count surpassed 400. The county recorded 405 new cases on Monday, according to the Maryland Department of Health, pushing the local total since March to 39,721 infections. In the last 24 hours, two more people have died from COVID-19. The county's death toll now stands at 980. Forty-four 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 — which is home to roughly 1 million residents — 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 47,682, according to the latest figures. Across Maryland, there have been 236,961 coronavirus cases, 4,978 confirmed deaths, and 164 "probable deaths." Of the 1,742 patients being hospitalized for the disease statewide, 404 are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).