Harford Inmate Tests Positive For Coronavirus: Report

BEL AIR, MD — An inmate at the Harford County Detention Center has reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus. He has been at the detention center on Rock Spring Road since December, a spokesperson for the sheriff's office told The Aegis.

The inmate, who was not identified, was the first Harford County detainee to test positive for the virus since the pandemic began in March, according to the newspaper, and an investigation is underway to determine how he contracted it. His roommate tested negative, The Aegis reported Monday.

Visitation had been halted at the detention center due to the coronavirus from March to Nov. 1, when it was allowed if people made appointments a week in advance and had their temperatures checked and wore face coverings. It was suspended again Nov. 12 as coronavirus cases increased.

Harford County had been among five jurisdictions in Maryland that had not reported cases of the coronavirus at its detention facilities as of Dec. 30, the most recent data available from the Maryland Department of Health. Others are Calvert, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot counties. The numbers are updated weekly on Wednesdays, so they do not yet reflect an inmate in Harford County has contracted the virus.

State health data shows 8,957 cases of the virus have been confirmed in Harford County, where 167 deaths have been attributed to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, as of Monday, Jan. 4. Of the cases in Harford County, 624 have been tied to nursing homes, and so have 55 deaths of nursing home residents, according to the Maryland Department of Health.

The ZIP codes with the most cases in Harford County as of Monday are as follows, the Harford County Health Department reports:

• 21014 with 1,352 cases in Bel Air North
• 21009 with 1,145 cases in Abingdon
• 21040 with 1,011 cases in Edgewood

This is the coronavirus case count in Harford County by ZIP code for Monday, Jan. 4:

See Also:

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