MARYLAND MARKS NEW LOW FOR COVID TEST POSITIVITY

Maryland is marking a new low for the state’s COVID-19 test positivity rate.  The rate is down point-oh-three-percent to point-86-percent.  The state added 60 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total case count since the start of the pandemic to more than 461-thousand-300.  The state’s virus-related death toll increased by two to more than 94-hundred.  Meanwhile, CDC data shows 72-percent of adult Marylanders have received at least one vaccine dose and more than three-point-one-million Marylanders are fully vaccinated.