Coronavirus illustration, created at the CDC
Over the past seven days, an average of 9.5 percent of coronavirus tests in Maryland have come back positive, putting the state in line with a testing benchmark set by health experts for the first time.
The statewide rate of positive tests has decreased for six consecutive days since reaching 12.8 percent on May 26, and has been trending downward for about a month and a half, state data show.
During that month and a half of declines, Maryland continued to ramp up its testing capabilities.
On March 29, the earliest date the state has data for the rate of testing over a seven-day period, 11.3 percent came back positive. Officials reported 1,585 test results that day.
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