Black people continue to have the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases out of any racial or ethnic group in Maryland, and a disproportionate percentage of black Marylanders have died due to COVID-19, state data show.

At least 56,770 Marylanders have tested positive for COVID-19, while 290,956 have tested negative as of Friday morning, according to the Maryland Department of Health’s COVID-19 Case Map Dashboard.

Approximately the same number of white and black Marylanders have been died from coronavirus–1,082 and 1,077, respectively–even though African-Americans only make up 30.9 percent of the state’s population, according to census data.

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