COVID-19 In Maryland: Nearly 900 New Cases Reported As Delta Variant Spreads

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland reported 890 caller COVID-19 cases and 4 caller deaths, according to authorities wellness section information released Friday morning.

Doctors accidental the caller cases are fueled by unsafe strains targeting the unvaccinated. During an August property conference, Governor 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.

Hogan besides said less than 0.01% of vaccinated Marylanders person been hospitalized with COVID-19, and little than 0.001% of vaccinated Marylanders person died from the virus.

More than 3.5 cardinal Maryland adults are afloat vaccinated. State officials besides reported that the authorities positivity went up to 3.79%.

Hospitalizations accrued by 8 to 345. Of those hospitalized, 250 stay successful acute attraction and 87 stay successful the ICU.

Since the pandemic began, determination were 472,224 full confirmed cases and 9,626 deaths.

Vaccination rates are reported arsenic of Thursday, arsenic determination has been a important hold successful information reporting Friday morning.

There are 3,585,152 Marylanders afloat vaccinated. The authorities has administered 7,238,304 doses. Of those, 3,653,152 are archetypal doses with 9,850 administered successful the past 24 hours. They person fixed retired 3,310,169 2nd doses, 5,689 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 274,983 Marylanders person received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, 1,050 successful the past day.

The authorities reported 77.9% of each adults successful Maryland person received astatine slightest 1 dose of the vaccine.

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Here are the latest numbers successful Maryland:

By County

County	Cases	Deaths
Allegany	7,142	(213)	1*
Anne Arundel	45,008	(656)	15*
Baltimore	67,125	(1,652)	41*
Baltimore City	54,010	(1,242)	25*
Calvert	4,358	(85)	1*
Caroline	2,393	(30)	0*
Carroll	9,681	(251)	6*
Cecil	6,590	(159)	2*
Charles	11,339	(215)	2*
Dorchester	2,947	(64)	1*
Frederick	20,274	(337)	10*
Garrett	2,083	(65)	1*
Harford	17,044	(298)	6*
Howard	19,725	(255)	7*
Kent	1,379	(49)	2*
Montgomery	72,714	(1,584)	51*
Prince George’s	87,492	(1,567)	41*
Queen Anne’s	3,054	(54)	1*
St. Mary’s	6,292	(132)	0*
Somerset	2,661	(42)	0*
Talbot	2,230	(45)	0*
Washington	14,895	(330)	4*
Wicomico	7,994	(178)	0*
Worcester	3,794	(105)	1*
Data not available	0	(18)	2*

By Age Range and Gender

Age/Gender	Cases	Deaths
0-9	27,216	(4)	0*
10-19	49,061	(6)	1*
20-29	86,780	(45)	1*
30-39	81,092	(110)	6*
40-49	70,189	(294)	5*
50-59	69,836	(818)	33*
60-69	46,492	(1,647)	26*
70-79	25,479	(2,437)	44*
80+	16,079	(4,263)	104*
Data not available	0	(2)	0*
Female	247,080	(4,660)	106*
Male	225,144	(4,966)	114*
Unknown Gender	0	(0)	0*

By Race and Ethnicity

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Race/Ethnicity	Cases	Deaths
African-American (NH)	148,143	(3,494)	81*
Asian (NH)	11,689	(329)	11*
White (NH)	167,942	(4,843)	106*
Hispanic	71,408	(840)	19*
Other (NH)	22,028	(105)	1*
Data not available	51,014	(15)	2*