2 more Mainers die and 265 coronavirus cases are reported across the state

By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff

This story will be updated. 

Another two Mainers have died as health officials on Friday reported 265 more coronavirus cases across the state.

The statewide death toll now stands at 632.

Friday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 40,799, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 40,534 on Thursday. 

Of those, 32,729 have been confirmed positive, while 8,070 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, 1,431 Mainers have been hospitalized at some point with COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. Information on those hospitalizations was not immediately available.

Cases have been reported in Androscoggin (4,451), Aroostook (1,176), Cumberland (11,556), Franklin (806), Hancock (815), Kennebec (3,313), Knox (591), Lincoln (505), Oxford (1,999), Penobscot (3,531), Piscataquis (223), Sagadahoc (831), Somerset (1,131), Waldo (529), Washington (661) and York (8,680) counties. Information about where an additional case was reported wasn’t immediately available.

As of Friday morning, the coronavirus had sickened 26,680,261 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 455,875 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.