Montgomery County Surpasses 45K COVID-19 Cases

Rockville MD

28 December, 2020

1:03 PM

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ROCKVILLE, MD — Montgomery County's COVID-19 caseload surpassed 45,000 on Monday, according to the Maryland Department of Health. Overnight, health officials reported 410 new coronavirus cases, bringing the countywide total during the pandemic to 45,050 infections. Six more people have died from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. That pushes the local death toll to 1,061. Forty-three others, health officials say, may have died from COVID-19, but never got tested. A lab test must confirm an infection before a "probable death" can be added to the official fatality count. 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 53,338, according to the latest figures. Across Maryland, there have been 269,183 cases, 5,573 confirmed deaths, and 167 "probable deaths." Of the 1,738 people being hospitalized statewide, 423 are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).