Maryland is expecting to receive about $3.7 billion in federal pandemic relief “within the next week or so,” a state budget official said Thursday during the first meeting of a state workgroup on pandemic-related spending.

Marc Nicole, who is Gov. Larry Hogan’s deputy budget secretary, outlined more than $62 billion in overall federal and state pandemic relief funds during an initial meeting of a state workgroup on pandemic spending.

Originally reported by Brian Witte of CBS Baltimore on May 21, 2021.