Montgomery County Records 216 COVID Cases, 6 Deaths Overnight

Rockville MD

16 November, 2020

2:56 PM

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ROCKVILLE, MD — Montgomery County on Monday added 216 new COVID-19 cases and six new deaths, pushing its overall totals to 29,205 infections and 871 fatalities. 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. The 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 36,486, according to the latest figures. Across Maryland, there have been 167,656 coronavirus cases, 4,160 confirmed deaths, and 149 "probable deaths." Of the 985 patients being hospitalized for the disease statewide, 237 are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).