4 more Mainers die and another 324 coronavirus cases are reported across the state
By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff
This story will be updated.
Another four Mainers have died as health officials on Saturday reported 324 more coronavirus cases.
The number of coronavirus cases diagnosed in the past 14 days statewide is 7,587. This is an estimation of the current number of active cases in the state, as the Maine CDC is no longer tracking recoveries for all patients. That’s down from 7,888 on Friday.
One Androscoggin county resident, two Cumberland county residents and one Penobscot county resident died, bringing the statewide death toll to 544.
Maine’s seven-day average for new coronavirus cases is 485.1, down from 501.4 a day ago, down from 609.1 a week ago and up from 4760 a month ago.
The new case rate statewide Saturday is 2.42 cases per 10,000 residents, and the total case rate statewide is 273.45.
Saturday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 36,598, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 36,274 on Friday.
Of those, 29,780 have been confirmed positive, while 6,818 were classified as “probable cases,” the Maine CDC reported.
The most cases have been detected in Mainers in their 20s, while Mainers over 80 years old make up the majority of deaths. More cases and deaths have been recorded in women than men.
So far, 1,322 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Additional information about the hospitalizations were not immediately available.
Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (4,009), Aroostook (1,083), Cumberland (10,563), Franklin (666), Hancock (719), Kennebec (2,854), Knox (543), Lincoln (437), Oxford (1,755), Penobscot (3,146), Piscataquis (181), Sagadahoc (695), Somerset (1,034), Waldo (464), Washington (556) and York (7,892) counties. Information about where an additional case was reported wasn’t immediately available.
As of Saturday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 24,822,874 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as caused 414,117 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.