Coronavirus numbers for June 21, 2020.

/ WAMU

The District has hit an unfortunate milestone — more than 10,000 residents have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began in March.

D.C. reported 36 new positive cases Sunday, which is the average number of new cases it reported over the past week. The total number of cases now stands at 10,020. It also recorded 2 new deaths from the virus, for a total of 533 deaths.

The number of new cases in Maryland and Virginia have also generally held steady in their daily reports over the past week, rather than dropped.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday that with 15 days of decline in the community spread metric, the city would make the move to Phase Two of its reopening plan on Monday.

That would mean many gyms, spas, and retail stores could reopen with a limited number of people. Restaurants have made plans to begin seating some customers indoors. At least two museums said they would reopen immediately.

On Saturday, a D.C. resident noted a sharp spike in community spread on the District’s coronavirus data tracker, But that spike disappeared from the data shortly after. The D.C. Department of Health has not explained the discrepancy.

Elsewhere, Virginia on Sunday reported 551 new cases of the coronavirus for a total of 57,994. It reported 4 new deaths for a total of 1,611. For the first time, Virginia reported a seven-day average positivity rate of below 7%. Virginia has also increased testing, with more than 10,000 tests a day in the past three days.

Maryland reported 350 new cases on Sunday for a total of 64,306 cases. It said there had been 14 new deaths for a total of 3,066. It has a seven-day average positivity rate of about 5%.

The District has not laid out what metrics would be needed to enter Phase Three, which would allow higher-risk activities, like reopening pools with safeguards, more capacity increases for restaurants and businesses and allowing groups of up to 250 people instead of 50 people. So far, the only guideline is “sporadic transmission” of the disease.

Since the pandemic began, about 1.42% of D.C.’s population has been infected with the coronavirus compared to 1.06% of Maryland’s population and 0.67% of Virginia’s population.