Anne Arundel County confirms 95 new virus cases, no deaths

Anne Arundel County confirmed 95 new coronavirus cases and no new deaths Sunday, according to state health data. Maryland confirmed 860 new coronavirus cases and 10 deaths.

Numbers released Sunday morning show the county has reached 36,965 confirmed cases and 538 deaths. Another 14 people may have died from the disease, but a lab test was never performed. Maryland now has 393,441 confirmed cases and 7,866 deaths.

Anne Arundel’s sevenday average rate of positive cases is 4.59%, higher than the state’s 3.73%. The seven-day average case rate per 100,000 people is about 15.64 for the county. The case rate is a metric of infections per 100,000 people, averaged over seven days, to judge how quickly and widely the virus is spreading in the county.

Statewide, 774 people are currently hospitalized with 210 patients in the ICU and 564 patients in acute care.

Anne Arundel remains in the Phase 1B vaccination stage, which currently includes all residents age 75 and older, residents and employees of group living facilities, workers needed to keep the government functioning, teachers and childcare workers. Vaccinations for Phase 1A groups, mainly health care workers and first responders, also continue.

As of Sunday, the Maryland Department of Health had administered 1,189,399 first doses of coronavirus vaccines, and 639,118second doses to residents.

The state is in Phase 1C, which includes adults age 65-74; public health and safety workers not covered in Phase 1A; and essential workers in lab services, food/agriculture production, manufacturing, the U.S. Postal Service, public transit and grocery stores.

To schedule a test or learn more, go to aahealth.org/ covid19-testing.

The county’s hospitalization rate and cases by ZIP code are not updated on Sundays.