Montgomery County Registers 159 New Coronavirus Cases, 3 Deaths

BETHESDA, MD — Montgomery County added 159 new coronavirus cases and three more COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, bringing its totals since March to 61,160 infections and 1,319 fatalities.

Forty-four others, health officials say, may have had the virus, but died before ever getting tested. For now, they are considered "probable deaths." They won't be added to the official fatality count until confirmatory lab tests are performed.

Montgomery County — which is home to roughly 1 million residents — 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 70,465, according to the latest figures.

Across Maryland, there have been 367,865 coronavirus cases, 7,288 confirmed deaths, and 179 "probable deaths." Of the 1,272 patients being hospitalized for the disease statewide, 324 are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).