COVID-19 In Maryland: More Than 1.2K New Cases & 12 Deaths Reported Saturday

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland reported 1,277 caller COVID-19 cases and 12 deaths, according to authorities wellness section information released Saturday morning.

The percent of radical investigating affirmative decreased somewhat by .022% to 4.23%. It’s the sixth time successful a enactment that positivity decreased.

Doctors accidental the caller cases are fueled by unsafe strains targeting the unvaccinated. During an August property conference, Gov. Larry Hogan said the Delta variant, a strain that is reportedly 2 to 4 times much contagious than the archetypal microorganism strain, accounts for astir each caller confirmed lawsuit successful Maryland.

“The vaccines are without a uncertainty our azygous astir effectual instrumentality to mitigate the menace of COVID-19 and the surging Delta variant, and Maryland’s vaccination complaint continues to outpace the nation,” Hogan said.

More than 3.8 cardinal Maryland adults are afloat vaccinated.

Hospitalizations decreased by 4, to 788. Of those hospitalized, 586 stay successful acute attraction and 206 are successful the ICU.

Since the pandemic began, determination were 518,061 full confirmed cases and 10,035 deaths.

There are 3,835,130 Marylanders afloat vaccinated. The authorities has administered 7,779,952 doses. Of those, 3,901,097 are archetypal doses with 5,070 administered successful the past 24 hours. They person fixed retired 3,537,592 second doses, 5,886 successful the past day.

The authorities began to administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine again successful April aft the CDC and FDA lifted their intermission connected the vaccine owed to a uncommon humor clot recovered successful immoderate women.

A full of 297,538 Marylanders person received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 308 successful the past day.

The authorities reported 82.6% of each adults successful Maryland person received astatine slightest 1 dose of the vaccine.

In August, the authorities launched a post-vaccination infections dashboard that is updated each Wednesday. There person been 15,917 full cases among afloat vaccinated Marylanders arsenic of past Wednesday, Sept. 15.

Of those cases, 1,186 vaccinated Marylanders were hospitalized, representing 8.03% of each Covid cases hospitalized successful the state. One 100 30 afloat vaccinated Marylanders person died, representing 7.27% of lab-confirmed Covid deaths successful the state.

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Here’s a breakdown of the numbers:

By County

County	Cases	Deaths
Allegany	8,426	(224)	2*
Anne Arundel	49,207	(695)	15*
Baltimore	72,019	(1,706)	42*
Baltimore City	57,673	(1,272)	26*
Calvert	4,933	(90)	1*
Caroline	2,718	(38)	0*
Carroll	10,628	(267)	6*
Cecil	7,571	(162)	2*
Charles	13,282	(227)	2*
Dorchester	3,638	(69)	1*
Frederick	22,479	(349)	10*
Garrett	2,491	(68)	1*
Harford	18,814	(319)	7*
Howard	21,422	(262)	7*
Kent	1,526	(49)	3*
Montgomery	78,428	(1,618)	51*
Prince George’s	94,870	(1,614)	43*
Queen Anne’s	3,445	(59)	1*
St. Mary’s	7,916	(141)	1*
Somerset	3,004	(46)	0*
Talbot	2,480	(49)	0*
Washington	16,912	(351)	5*
Wicomico	9,679	(197)	0*
Worcester	4,500	(110)	1*
Data not available	0	(53)	1*

By Age Range and Gender

Age/Gender	Cases	Deaths
0-9	33,047	(4)	0*
10-19	55,501	(6)	1*
20-29	94,621	(48)	1*
30-39	89,106	(125)	7*
40-49	76,228	(323)	5*
50-59	75,125	(891)	33*
60-69	50,070	(1,720)	27*
70-79	27,449	(2,528)	48*
80+	16,914	(4,388)	106*
Data not available	0	(2)	0*
Female	271,408	(4,842)	111*
Male	246,653	(5,193)	117*
Unknown Gender	0	(0)	0*

By Race and Ethnicity

Race/Ethnicity	Cases	Deaths
African-American (NH)	163,698	(3,616)	84*
Asian (NH)	12,578	(338)	11*
White (NH)	190,059	(5,066)	112*
Hispanic	75,121	(857)	19*
Other (NH)	23,980	(110)	1*
Data not available	52,625	(48)	1*