One day after a county health official downplayed last week’s slight uptick in COVID-19 cases, the Carroll County Health Department released data that shows this week’s case numbers are trending down significantly.
Carroll finished with 155 total cases a week ago.
Carroll’s case rate per 100,000 people per day, reported as an average over the past seven days, dropped to 11.7, the lowest it has been since March 7.
Carroll’s testing positivity rate, which measures the percentage of tests that returned positive results over the past seven days, dropped to 4.74%.
That makes 245 Carroll deaths attributed to the coronavirus, 174 residents of congregate living facilities and 71 members of the wider community.
Friday completed the second week with a statewide positivity rate below 5% and Maryland health officials reported fewer than 1,000 new cases statewide for the ninth straight day.
For the sixth straight day, fewer than 1,000 people with COVID-19 are being treated in state hospitals, an improvement from last month, when as many as 1,282 people were hospitalized with the disease at a time.
Most clinics going forward will be held at TownMall of Westminster in the space formerly occupied by Sears.
According to Carroll County Health Department data, 47.7% of all Carroll County residents have received at least one dose of the vaccine and 35.5% are fully vaccinated.
In addition to those, the health department reported 25 probable cases meaning Carroll has seen 3,082 probables since the beginning of the pandemic.